Community fish

Today we acquired two new members to our family of 6: goldfish.  A neighbor posted some free ones on our Student Spouse FB group and I jumped at the chance, thinking about how excited the girls would be--and I am all about low-maintenance, but fun, pets.  When I went to pick them up this morning, I learned that we would be their third family.  Fish are not the easiest pets to PCS (permanent change of station) with, and pilot students/families are here about 12-15 months, tops--so they have been bouncing about from one house to the next.

Social networking sites like FB make community-style offerings so very much easier.  The other day, the same family who gave us the fish picked up a stack of cardboard boxes from our garage.  Our neighbors just became the third owners of a giant trampoline.  And there are easily 10-20 freebies (everything from laundry detergent to fences to pets [this week alone included our fish and a puppy]) posted on our FB group each week.

Here are our two new little guys:

Little Sis has named the smallest one "Princess Susie" (she names just about everything "Susie", including all her "Ariel" dolls, lol).  Big Sis has named the larger one "Dorothy", but Dorothy is going by "Wanda" for the Halloween season, since it is "a witch name".