Life Aquatic

[plumtreeblossom]

At Christmas my neice Emily gave me one of those toys that you put in water so it can it grow to umpteen times its original size (shut up pervs, it's a starfish). I put it in a bowl of water on Sunday morning when beowabbit was here, and at the time it was about 3" in diameter. It's since been transferred to a spaghetti pot, because it's now the size of a catcher's mitt. The bright orange color of the starfish's wee dehydrated self has faded to a disturbingly natural peachy starfish tone, enough so that I felt it wise to tell vanguardcdk that it was not a real starfish that I was fattening up for sushi, but a toy.

I want more of these strange things.

Comments

[mindflankr.livejournal.com]

hehehehe....sounds interesting! Where does one find such a toy? (It is my niece's birthday soon)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I have no idea. It seems like the kind of toy you'd find at the gift shop of a science museum. The next time I'm there, I'll look!

[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

I gave one of those to the ten-year-old for Christmas. (A dinosaur, since he's really into dinosaurs.) It provided hours worth of entertainment. For both of us. :-)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

It's eerily like a living creature. Watching something grow gives me this strange, false sense of "pet." I have to resist the urge to feed it. :-)