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some of my koi are probably 14 to 16 inches. I keep giving the bigger ones away but kept my tri color and his girlfriend

Good to have a backup plan in case Kentucky gets colder than I expect. and one without an electric bill. I'm used to utility failures during hard freezes, I have battery powered air pumps but yeah, I don't want to need a heater.

I think my bigger koi are too big for 300 gallons, I remember what it cost to heat an inground pond the one year I tried (and failed) to do it here.. Still thinking this over, I want close to 1000 gallons if I do it here I grow lotus, water lilies, pickerel rush, aquatic iris, and crinum lilies...

I'm pretty sure above ground is a bad idea but 3 ft is a lot of digging. Holding out hope.

I'm up to 29K platelets as of yesterday, the key to the increase seems to be chicken livers for lunch on Sunday, combined with methyl B12 and methyl Folate supplements. I picked up some slow release iron yesterday to take, my doctor and I are going to have a parting of the ways after my visit...

Help - I plan to move north - probably up around Kentucky / Tennessee maybe Illinois this summer. Something in 6B. I have koi. I have a 13 ft diameter above ground pond those koi live in that will literally pack up and load on my trailer to go with me. but I have never kept koi anywhere but...

Whiskers was a foster fail. He was probably a feral kitten rescued from the streets. I'll never know how he ended up rescued by a local organization, vetted and put in petsmart adoptions in early spring 2022. In June 2022 I got a call asking if I had room for a foster. Adoptions at Petsmart had...

Texas considers dogs property, will not enforce spay neuter laws and we have an embarrassing number of puppy mills and back yard breeders, with dogs being euthanized daily in the Fort Worth and Dallas shelters. Some of the other cities do better

I had a stray rottie adopt me but had to find her a home, or felt safer doing so, because I had a toddler at the time. I got an 18 month old rottie /bernese mix off death row at the pound 20 years later, he had perfect manners with other dogs and I had always wanted one. I had him til he died...

I have a 10 year old that is 25% Aussie cattle dog, 12.5% Aussie shepherd, 25% Great Pyr. and a lot of little breeds. first dog I ever had dna run on because he was a nut job. Had him 9 years, he's still a nut job but not quite as needy as when younger. I will never have another heeler or...

I love mutts too! and 3 of my 4 dogs came from shelters, 2 were on death row and met half an hour before the needle. They adapted, I adapted, they are loyal and still here, my senior pack. Would not trade any. Well except Teddy but he's special and the grandkids adore him

There are.definitely rescued greyhounds in Texas, I'm sure we aren't the only state with them. There are proper greyhound rescues on the internet

I have to vote for the rottweiler, or a rottweiler mix. I've had german shepherds, mixes, border collie / gsd mix, dobies and mixes, and a shar pei. I've had a couple of rottweiler mixes. I have a 6 year old rottie mix now I got as a pup, the only dog I have now that isn't a senior. Smart but...

I promise you I've heard that advice all over. I will lay off, and keep up the B12 to try and triple my platelets this time. My left knee demands it soon Next blood draw 10 days. I'm also on Promacta, highest dose they give but it didn't do anything til I started B12

ingest. I make it myself too, and I don't take large doses but with the ITP they made me stop entirely. Until my platelets jumped per monday's blood test I stayed off it. I'm not taking what I was, but the pain was getting to be too much.

there is an article on the NIH site that says a B12 deficiency can cause. Meds didn't work til I started B12. I have a faulty Mthfr gene that affects my ability to absorb B12, I have to take in a lot to get a little is how my dr described it. i changed vitamins around 2018, bet I've been...

Update: Last flooding event, my underground sump pump had died (it was about 6 years old). I've replaced it, about to be drought again unless we get significant rain next week, so it may not matter. And new owner can get flood insurance cheap, plus I already fixed the foundation. Bees have...

my battery powered air pumps have gotten a reef tank (heavily stocked) Thru a 12 hour outage, and all my freshwaters thru about 48 hours outage before. I have a backup power supply, bought it after snowmageddon, and a wood stove but it is easier to have the fish simply taken care of. For me.

Well but working too much. On the bright side B12 seems to be raising my platelet levels. By 50% over the last 2 week period. Doc is confused. I guess she didn't read the NIH article. Nurse is thrilled.

when that used to hit me - and with teenage twins and an addict husband it was often, I would clean fish tanks. I had about 13 at that time. I'd have the twins each yelling in an ear while I siphoned and cleaned gravel. and husband trying to prove his point. I just kept doing my fish. and...

Hope today went well. Goodnight.

I like your string together quotes very much.

One day at a time. Cook with your friend. Eat, it will help your mood. Make that pot of coffee. And take slow steps, many foreseen problems never actually happen. Keep your focus on today, not in the dark tunnels of past or future. Peace be with you

Put one foot in front of the other and make a pot of coffee. Actually I am about to do that too. You are in my thoughts

And Army Corps of Engineers never replied. Fort Worth engineers never replied Code Enforcement said they can't do anything (even when I offered to dig a ditch thru someone else's property) And the lawyer said it was too late to sue by the time I discovered the foundation damage. so I sell the...

Bee were picked up on Tuesday. Now if I can get ahold of my helper we can take the elm and hackberry saplings off the lot, at least the ones threatening the fence. He is not allergic to bees but his deodorant attracted them and got him stung a couple times

this is common duckweed, came in with a plant, which didn't live, in the 55, and now I have to get out of the hex. Will rinse hose after. Thank you

somehow, I guess on my hose, duckweed got in my hex tank. How do you clean your python to remove all bits and not share it?

but if it got loose in a Texas waterway and a trail back to your pond was followed by Parks and Wildlife it might be one of those $1000 per plant fines

B12 seems to be helping. Platelets are up. Not massively but up. Bee buyer may be getting bees tomorrow, I'm having to feed them. Needs to soon

if you have some file folders and a box they will fit vertical in and label them you can save yourself some time in finding things.

without an undergravel filter there aren't enough bacteria in the gravel. and established fish can handle a gradual spike, where new fish being introduced during a spike coming from different water parameters are going to experience much more stress. never ever change cartridge at same time as...

I'm not surprised. I looked at some dragon stone when it became the aquascaping thing and opted not, it looked pretty soft

I'm lifting iris and giving to friends and putting in wildflower seed, always good therapy. Bloodwork tomorrow. Nosebleed is gone, its quite possible that B12 is working

some books are like old friends. You know how they end but they can be very soothing. I read tolkien's every 15 years or so, very calming

No one applied for a permit to raise it, absentee owner, and the city pays no attention out here

Update: The meds they have me on aren't working very well, my thrombocytopenia may be caused by a B12 deficiency according to an NIH article. and My doctor read the article, gave her ok for me to start megadosing B12, and they'll test vitamin levels with my platelet levels next week. and then...

I got the bill for the electric heat. I'm running the woodstove tonight. Looks like it won't be too many more nights I need a fire.