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[WhistlingBadger]

Yesterday, I was kayaking on a shallow, muddy river. I was surrounded by scarlet maple trees, as the leaves have begun to turn. I realized I was into something rare around here - a hardwood habitat with no evergreens. So I started drifting the banks, picking up driftwood pieces for the tanks.
I found a beach on an island covered in maple branches. As water levels have dropped seasonally, a whole pile has been exposed.

Even this late in the season, there were Ludwigia plants all through the red mud shallows. Ludwigia, Elodea, Myrophilium and a couple of others that can't acclimate to tanks. @JackGulley , you don't have to go to the tropics to see common aquarium plants.
In Gabon, I saw maybe 2 or 3 individual Anubias in the water, and a Riccia-like thing, and that was all.

Sounds like it's time for a Newfoundland biotope tank, Gary. We have some interesting aquatic plants here, but most of our fish need very cold water, and chillers are expensive. That's what has kept me from doing a local tank. It's on my ever-growing "someday" list.

 

[GaryE]

If it's legal where you are, native plants (in North America) collected before mid July seem to establish themselves well. After then, as the days begin to shorten, they seem to have one of those 'initiate self destruct' buttons from the movies. They won't grow past September. I have Valls I legally collected many years ago, in June, still going strong.

I fooled 'em.

Being in Newfoundland, home of my ancestors, would be good. Well, home for some of them after other ancestral homes - ancestors get around. I'm around 1000km/500 miles south of where the family were in both Newfoundland and Labrador. I'm in New Brunswick, the drive through on the way to more touristic places province. I'm an hour from Maine. And don't worry. Last year, I had to look up Wyoming on google earth. I knew it was somewhere between Chicago and China, and needed precisions on that!

I don't keep natives because of the cold issue. I can't deliver. The tanks would freeze and split, or cost a fortune to keep ice free in the cold side of the garage. We're in a mild winter zone, only getting to 20 below (celsius) on a few days a winter, but even that wouldn't pay off. You can keep many native fish for years, but they don't "work right". It isn't fair to them.

 

[jaylach]

Just found out there are a couple of new TV shows coming up that MAY be if interest...
1) A flashback for the original NCIS show with Gibbs as a young man starting out. I really liked the original NCIS but didn't get into the spinoffs.

2) Matlock is back! I always like the original Matlock series with Andy Griffith and still often watch re-runs. This new series is a female Matlock that is older. Just a guess but I'll bet dollars to donuts the character is the original Matlock's daughter that was in the series.

I look forward to seeing both series and hope they don't ruin them.

 

[JackGulley]

@CaptainBarnicles

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Words to live by:

 

[gwand]

Just passed a 12 point buck on the roadside, a road kill victim. Saddest nonhuman death I have seen in a long time. Even in death he was majestic.

 

[jaylach]

Sigh, I'm sitting here in total disgust! Anyone anywhere that has anything to do with making movies need to be shot. Got an email from Peacock streaming on a newly added movie. How can you take Winnie The Pooh and make a blood fest horror movie out of it called "Winnie The Pooh; Blood and Honey"??? To be honest I've never been a super fan of Winnie The Pooh but you just can't do this! This is one of the 'cover posters'. They take a childhood icon and turn it into a childhood nightmare.

 

[Rocky998]

Sigh, I'm sitting here in total disgust! Anyone anywhere that has anything to do with making movies need to be shot. Got an email from Peacock streaming on a newly added movie. How can you take Winnie The Pooh and make a blood fest horror movie out of it called "Winnie The Pooh; Blood and Honey"??? To be honest I've never been a super fan of Winnie The Pooh but you just can't do this! This is one of the 'cover posters'. They take a childhood icon and turn it into a childhood nightmare.
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Yeah. Saw the ad for this a while back. I hated them for it

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Sigh, I'm sitting here in total disgust! Anyone anywhere that has anything to do with making movies need to be shot. Got an email from Peacock streaming on a newly added movie. How can you take Winnie The Pooh and make a blood fest horror movie out of it called "Winnie The Pooh; Blood and Honey"??? To be honest I've never been a super fan of Winnie The Pooh but you just can't do this! This is one of the 'cover posters'. They take a childhood icon and turn it into a childhood nightmare.
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My first impulse was to laugh...surely that's a parody, not a real movie? But no, it's real. Wow.

 

[Rocky998]

My first impulse was to laugh...surely that's a parody, not a real movie? But no, it's real. Wow.

Yupp... I saw the trailer pop up one time for me and I was saddened

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I mean, surely it's at least a little bit tougue-in-cheek. "Blood and Honey"? They can't be entirely serious. Either way, I'll probably miss out on that one.

 

[Rocky998]

I mean, surely it's at least a little bit tougue-in-cheek. "Blood and Honey"? They can't be entirely serious. Either way, I'll probably miss out on that one.

Maybe nit entirely serious, but from what I've seen so far it seems like it's a pretty gruesome movie

 

[JackGulley]

I mean, surely it's at least a little bit tougue-in-cheek. "Blood and Honey"? They can't be entirely serious. Either way, I'll probably miss out on that one.

Yes they made it as a joke because Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain, meaning they technically don’t have to ask anyone’s permission to make it

 

[jaylach]

Yes they made it as a joke because Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain, meaning they technically don’t have to ask anyone’s permission to make it

Maybe but, since a sequel has already been released in March 2024, it doesn't seem so. Since the first movie grossed ~7-7 million with a production cost of only $100,000 USD it seems profitable and a third movie is in the works.

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey - Wikipedia

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Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 - Wikipedia

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[Rocky998]

Maybe but, since a sequel has already been released in March 2024, it doesn't seem so. Since the first movie grossed ~7-7 million with a production cost of only $1000,000 USD it seems profitable and a third movie is in the works.

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Sadly