Sunday, August 2, 2009

Death in our Family

Trista digging the hole while daddy and Vanessa watch

So early last spring Ryan took Trista and Vanessa fishing and Trista caught a Bass and she was so excited. When they got it home and Ryan went to clean it up SURPRISE it was still alive. Well Trista didn't have the heart to kill it so guess what her and her daddy had a bright idea to put it in our fish tank. Yep! we no longer had any little cute fish after that night. We soon learned that Bass eat everything and even try to eat the fingers that are trying to feed him. Well after a year one morning Ryan and I woke to him not being alive. Trista handled it so well I was proud of her. She decided to bury him in front of the flag pole and insisted to dig the hole herself. Poor thing there are so many rocks she did great though.
Though we are sad that "Hungry Hungry Hippo" (Trista named him because he eats anything) is dead we are excited we can again get fish.

2 comments:

Evelyn said...

How sad! And kind of funny too. But in a sad way!

Shelley Patterson said...

That is sad, but also very adorable. She is a tough little girl!