Well, tragedy struck on Wednesday night.  Our two darling fish in the back pond, Willy and  Wonka fell prey to the raccoon during the night.  We had inadvertently left the hose on, which raised the water level.  We suspect that the fish couldn't hide fast enough under the screen.  Wonka disappeared, and we found Willy dead in the grotto.  He probably got injured in escaping the raccoon, and died alone from his wounds.  We really loved to watch these little fish swim so quickly in and out.  

Auggie and Anders happened to be here when we discovered Willy.  Auggie took this picture of him in an incense box, just before we buried him in our fish graveyard.  We were all surprised at how large Willy had grown (about 4 1/2 inches long!)  We almost didn't think it was him. They died on November 17th, which is Robert's and my 10th anniversary of meeting each other.