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Kalib was asleep in his car seat when he and his parents arrived to pick up the fish and so the lot of us headed over to Palmer to get some coffee at Vagabond Blues. Some of you may recall an earlier stop at Vagabond in August, when I photographed Charlie standing in front of this very map.
I have decided that each time I wind up in Vagabond with Charlie, I will photograph him in front of this map.
It should prove to be an interesting study.
I wish I had thought of it years ago.
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The lady behind the cash register at Vagabond Blues in Palmer.
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Kelsey, Vagabond Blues barista.
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Charlie and his mug. Charlie always comes up with neat mugs.
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Kalib was still asleep when we arrived at Vagabond, so Jacob had to stay in the car with him.
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By the time we returned home, Kalib was wide awake. The first thing that he asked to do was to come out here to my office to feed "Bobby," to feed "fish." Ever since he has moved into his new home in Anchorage, he has continually brought up the subject of feeding fish. He has been sad that he had no fish to feed. His parents found what appeared to be a good deal on an aquarium complete with fish on Craigslist, but someone else beat them to it.
So I decided to give him one of my four active aquariums - not the one behind him, but the one that is most prominent in my earlier Kalib-fish feeding pictures.
I don't think that he understood yet that he would be going home with an aquarium and fish of his own.
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Before they took the fish, Kalib, Jacob and Melanie did a little fish dance.
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We also shared a little dinner. Royce took a seat near his buddy.
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Kalib points at Bobby, his favorite fish, the one he named, the big pleco. I'm afraid that I did not do too well taking pictures of the fish-moving, because I was too active in the process.
I kept the orange parrot fish pictured in earlier posts. I moved it from the 55 gallon tank that Kalib would take home to the 90 gallon tank where Bobby had lived.
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Kalib, about to leave for home with his fish.
I hope they all survive. They are pretty old fish, mostly eight and nine years, but the two smaller ones are four or five; I can't remember exactly.
Had things gone according to my original plan, I would have joined Margie in Arizona today. Tomorrow, assuming that everything goes according to my current plan, I will go to Barrow.
I have much to do in a short time up there. I will try to post every day, at least one or two pictures.