Simple Pleasures

I bought 2 more guppies today. Now I have 4 in my pond. I put the 2 new ones in and they all 4 just went wild, swimming around like crazy. I stood there and rescued fish as they jumped out of the pond. I rescued 4 times. I have no idea if it was the same fish every time, other than I'm sure the littlest one did jump out once. Then Little Guppy decided he was a bully and started chasing the 3 bigger fish all over the place. Why is it that little creatures often bully their bigger fellow creatures? Little dogs are the worst.

I realized as I was watching them that I feel very pleased about the whole thing. Not the bullying! No - I feel very pleased about my pond, my 5 fish and the fountain and everything. Simple pleasures are sometimes the very best.

I keep going over and making sure that they are all in the pond, carefully searching the carpet in front of me as I get closer. They somehow really blend in to the carpet, even tho the carpet is green and they are not. Maybe it's due to the design in the carpet of gold (they are not gold), black (they are dark) and white (they are not white) on a green background? I don't know, really, it just is. I creep up, speak out loud and move slowly once I get there. After living here for a few days now the 2 older fish are used to me and actually swim up to see if I'm going to feed them. Right now, however, they are all in "panic! someone's going to get me" mode.

Here are some photos, just for your viewing pleasure (hahahahahahaha). I bought the fake water lily at New Line (Нова Линея ) yesterday. I think it goes very well with all the other colors! :) Two views, the flash makes it brighter than it really is. The bucket and top yellow screen on the bucket are not so obvious, really.
There are 4 little fish in this photo, if you know where to look! The water distorts the bottom one a lot. Cheyenne - Happily keeping my cross stitch project warm. Sargon, the 5th fish, is in view here, too, back in his little tank. Wish I could put them all together, but I don't want to take a chance that they will fight and kill each other.