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This is practically my back yard and Linda and I will attend. There is also a show, not cats, this weekend in Burlington. It will be our first. Guess that sounds like a virgin on first date :)

Ok, as an experiment I added a cheap sponge filter to the 37 and hooked it to an air pump. It has been operating about 3 weeks. The past few days I observed a steady.decrease in bubbles. Today sporadic. Pulled the filter and rinsed it in some tank water. Filthy. The tank has a Top Fin pf40 hob...

Biggest bird plus ……. The areas around them are almost bug free.

Our crows hang out under the bird feeders. They scoop up the various worms and seeds dropped by the birds. Have also seen them grab an occasional milk or garter snake that gets careless. We enjoy the birds and their antics. In a sitting room window is a feeder Linda fills with black fly larvae...

All this talk of defective tanks. We have purchased a topfin, an Aqueon, and a Sepora new and two used tanks. One of the used is I think an Aqueon the other is unknown to us. It has no top frame and measures a true 24 by 12. Each that we have used so far, new or used was tested for several days...

Having raised food and livestock for more years than I want to admit I can attest to climate change. Our plant zone was just changed this past year and we now border on a zone 6, I think they call it a 5b. This to my mind is a positive effect for us personally on the homestead. OTH we now have...

Chris will arrive for lunch after which I will put him to work while Laura and Linda do whatever it is they do. The wire is largely in place and Chris just needs to connect to the entrance and the subfeeds. He will also run a wire to the outside basement entry wall which is wood being above the...

Pretty new to this but this is what we feed: Bug bites, shrimp pellets, algae wafer and flakes mashed up with the mortar and pests 3 times per day, lightly. Every third day a slurry of frozen brine shrimp and blood worm is subbed for one feeding. Smashed algae wafer couple times a week before...

Linda is getting ready to set up a 20g. This will be the first tank we are going to pay close attention to scaling. There are a couple of wind blown maples by the brook that have interesting burls. As soon as the snow melts I will chunk them off and try turning them on the lathe. If I can get an...

Today Linda and I are going to finish all the little snow removal jobs that need to be done around the place. Also need to resock about 20 birdfeeders and half dozen fat feeders. I will be using the snowblower to make paths for her to get to them. The half dozen or so down by the brook will have...

As the good Dr. in Jurassic Parc said …. Life finds a way.

Positive thoughts to you and yours!

Some truth to that. Quartzite, BLM land, is full of the rock and para people during winter. Many of them taking a break from the fairs that are their bread and butter. It is always an interesting sideshow. Sedona itself is an arts and craft haven that is more mainstream than most realize. The...

When I was a much younger man a good friend and I spent a month, give or take a day, for three consecutive summers hiking the High Peaks of the Adirondack Mountains. We lived off what the land provided, mainly fish, cowslip, mushrooms, wild onions, water lily and an occasional racoon, rabbit or...

Thai was an epic spring storm. 26 inches total snow and ice in the middle of the storm. Called my bud who has a plow this morning. The load was too much for my snow blower with the ice between two layers of snow. About 30 inches of packed mess at the end of my driveway. He finished about about...

I am not a huge BB fan anymore. I lost a lot of interest when they went to mostly night games. The game became difficult to pass from father to son after that with the exception of LL. Plus it lost some character when the spitter and drilled bats went to the wayside.

Johnny Podres was a neighbor for a bit when I was but a youngling. My best buds grandma worked in his restaurant, The Gold Shade. We went to the stadium on him a couple times each year. Got to meet all the bums and have several jerseys, a Snyder bat and a few other pieces of Dodger history.

Dodger fan here all the way back to the days of dem bums. I am not a fan of their Steinbrenner approach though.

I have football withdrawal.

Have another 10 or so inches since I did snow removal. Probably 18 inches at the head of the driveway, that will be really heavy and might require hand shoveling. Weather guy says it stoped snowing but nope, not here. Now getting a fine sleeting snow. Considering calling in the infantry with a...

Winter temps from Dec through Feb are generally mid 60’s day and mid 40 at night. You really want to be gone late spring through fall though. Arizona blistered my bald spot the one year we stayed in Yuma though June.

Just came in from removing 14 inches of snow from the driveway and clearing paths to Linda’s bird garden. It is now sleet and freezing rain so after a cup of hot chocolate I will be salting and sanding the hill part of the driveway and steps to the bird garden. Power is expected to be down at...

Big bait for big fish in lakes.

Good points. Sometimes the give and take on a forum gives the false impression of “testiness”.

I have used both live and artificial frogs in trout waters with mild success. Usually in later summer. If using a live frog rig it through one leg. That will encourage circular swimming,

I will note that sometimes a forum, the printed word, gives false impressions because a conversation is more than just printed words.

It is an interesting thread with a lot of emotion. Some of what is here is useful to people like me and some. Is far too academic for a casual hobbyist. Linda and I are enjoying the fish and the process but have not to much interest in the underlying biology except in methodology to fix issues...

We are in very North NY right at the feet of the high peak region. It is Mostly below ground but the top is Hermes 6 - 10 inches above ground. This was the first winter and with the use of areation it never froze. Also had donut heater, 125 watt I think. No koi but goldfish wintered well. Maybe...

Thank you. That makes perfect sense. Now to figure the cod. I am thinking she might have had birthing issues. Found only 3 fry.

I know little about fish unless we talk about angling. I do know abit about natural and artificial nature though. We can try to imitate the natural world and do a serviceable job. I doubt we will ever be able to duplicate her though whether with fish, chickens or a garden for that matter...

This seems a contentious subject. I am a newbie and generally ignorant of all the minutia. Until this week Linda or I tested every morning. We do about 30 percent every four days. Sometimes a bit less and sometimes a bit more. Gravel vac each third change. Our tanks seem to have settled at 0 -...

We started our first tank a week or so before joining. Now have four going plus two that are currently dry. Nothing like what I see here, we are still on training wheels.

I should add -- The tank contains 4 Molly, 3 (now 2) guppy, and 3 Cory. All seem fine with no apparent issues.

Good Morning, Last night it looked like a guppy was about to birth. So first thing this morning Linda went on a fry hunt and found three. After putting them in anursery box she yelled to me that she could not find mama. So I began searching the tank and found her on her side, dead against Upon...

Been a few days since I have been here. The weather has turned nasty so we have suspended the pond work for now. We did roughly lay out the marble chunks. It was quite a jigsaw puzzle. The oval pieces will be steppingstones and the irregular rectangles will provide an interesting floor under...

I understand and hope my reply was not offensive. Buster is an example of a critter that should not have ever been bred. He is developing a breathing problem as he ages. When he sleeps the snoring would rival a drunken sailor with COPD. We have learned how to help him on the few times he gets...

I know. If this was a fish on the drawing board so to speak I would not want to see breeders proceed. This is the way I feel about Buster dog. Realistically though, Buster exists as does the fish so like Buster the critter needs a good home. A case of reality rearing its ugly head. Linda will...

Linda has decided she would like a single Blood Parrot and a single Bristle Nose for the tank that will fill the kitchen to dining room pass through. It is 48 inches wide and will offer a view from the kitchen and new dining room. We have a Seapora 44 tall that she purchased a couple weeks ago...

False spring last week. Late fall this week.

Picture of Big Blue