Trout for Dinner

It has been pouring off and on for the past few days. Not so good for drying rice or anything else, and not so good for the hiking which Tomoe and I had hoped to do for a couple days this week.

I'm a bit worried about leaving the house when there is a chance of rain though. A week ago or so there was a big rain and, as often happens the pipe channeling water into our pond got clogged with leaves and debris. Usually this does not cause any kind of problem, but now we are keeping trout. The trout need constantly moving water or they tend to die. I did not notice that the pipe was clogged until it was too late and I found a dinner's worth of fish floating on the top of the pond. Luckily, I we started with several hundred fish just in case they are eaten by birds or racoons. I was happy to find that some of them had gotten quite a bit biger than I expected. They all used to be slightly smaller than the little one in my hand, and now quite a few of them have reached the size of that big guy there. Almost ready to eat on purpose.