Another mouth to feed

While dinner was cooking tonight, Speed Racer and I entertained ourselves by feeding the fish. I was standing on the deck, looking down at the pond, and thinking that one of the goldfish had really grown a lot. The goldfish have doubled in size (if not tripled) since we first put them in the pond last summer. Speed Racer told me that I was extremely unobservant -- and had been for a couple of days. Turns out, he had bought another koi and added it to the pond. It is that red goldfish color, with a white face.

The other koi has been playing "Jaws." When Speed Racer throws a cube of dried tubifex worms into the pond, he hums the "Jaws" theme, and the koi, on cue, rises from the depths, and grabs the cube with a flourish and an audible snap of its jaws. It even does that sort of twisting on it's back thing that the sharks do on the Discovery channel. The worm cube never fights back!