A new year and so the first run of the new year . I got 1245 miles in 2024 and I really only got going in April so 2,000 miles is the goal this year .
What are you doing today?
- Thread starter connorlindeman
- Start date
Pouring rain all night and into this morning. The rain follows three days of spring like weather that melted about a foot of snow. The brook is roaring and has again overflowed its banks. It will get higher as the mountain runoff continues to catch up.
The levee I built last fall is holding so far. Linda and I walked down this morning and the area we protected is muddy but from rain not the brook. Still about 18 inches above the water so I believe we will be fine. Looks like we will have use of that spot of land this year. Linda wants to put some livestock down there. I do not.
At ant rate HAPPY NEW YEAR to one and all!!
The levee I built last fall is holding so far. Linda and I walked down this morning and the area we protected is muddy but from rain not the brook. Still about 18 inches above the water so I believe we will be fine. Looks like we will have use of that spot of land this year. Linda wants to put some livestock down there. I do not.
At ant rate HAPPY NEW YEAR to one and all!!
WhistlingBadger
Professional Cat Herder
Retired Moderator ⚒️
Tank of the Month 🏆
Fish of the Month 🌟
- Joined
- Dec 18, 2011
- Messages
- 7,194
- Reaction score
- 13,675
- Location
- Where the deer and the antelope play
Wow. Those gators would be an amazing thing to see. And that blue bird...is that a purple gallinule? We have coots, their ugly kid cousins, around here, but those are wonderful looking birds. I'm happy for you that you got to do that, even with the Oscar swarm.
...hmmmm, I wonder if oscars are any good to eat...
Lanpenn
Fish Fanatic
I am finishing the "The Pacific" series on Netflix. I intend to do some future drawings and collect some inspiration.
WhistlingBadger
Professional Cat Herder
Retired Moderator ⚒️
Tank of the Month 🏆
Fish of the Month 🌟
- Joined
- Dec 18, 2011
- Messages
- 7,194
- Reaction score
- 13,675
- Location
- Where the deer and the antelope play
Arranging Bach's Air from Orchestral Suite 3 for two flutes and euphonium. 
Now your talking my language.Arranging Bach's Air from Orchestral Suite 3 for two flutes and euphonium.
We head home after spending a week in Florida with kids and grandkids. Now I must get back to my other children who have not been fed in 7 days.
OP
OP
Picture I took with my new camera
WhistlingBadger
Professional Cat Herder
Retired Moderator ⚒️
Tank of the Month 🏆
Fish of the Month 🌟
- Joined
- Dec 18, 2011
- Messages
- 7,194
- Reaction score
- 13,675
- Location
- Where the deer and the antelope play
Nice!
Didn't turn out half bad. Helps to be starting with excellent material, of course. I did the notation with the free version of Noteflight, which isn't great but adequate for fairly simple projects. I don't do enough notation/publishing to bother paying for premium notation software.
That is very cool.
I have a great love of Bach's music, an oddity for a guy who otherwise still listens to a lot of punk music. Bach, and the sea of composers who were his contemporaries fascinate me.
Hmm, maybe a toccata and fugue for tone deaf harmonica player?
Or maybe not.
I had to thaw the door lock for the fishroom this morning, and once in there, put my energy into improving the plant lighting for the terrestrial plants. There are some dark months ahead. I want to be able to switch out the current plants under the lights later in the Spring, when the days get longer, and put vegetable seedlings under the lights. I need to grow basil roots in the tanks again this year, simply because it's fun.
I also caught two female Hyphessobrycon sp cherry red, an undescribed new to us tetra. Round one failed, so for round two, 2 degrees celsius warmer, with a week of conditioning the females with very rich, egg producing live foods. Then, this time next week if I'm patient and disciplined, the males go in and we see what happens. The water is very soft, and tannin stained at 27c.
It's such a beautiful fish, but I only got 2 males in my group of 8, and I can't afford (or find) more. Here's hoping the solution works.
I have a great love of Bach's music, an oddity for a guy who otherwise still listens to a lot of punk music. Bach, and the sea of composers who were his contemporaries fascinate me.
Hmm, maybe a toccata and fugue for tone deaf harmonica player?
Or maybe not.
I had to thaw the door lock for the fishroom this morning, and once in there, put my energy into improving the plant lighting for the terrestrial plants. There are some dark months ahead. I want to be able to switch out the current plants under the lights later in the Spring, when the days get longer, and put vegetable seedlings under the lights. I need to grow basil roots in the tanks again this year, simply because it's fun.
I also caught two female Hyphessobrycon sp cherry red, an undescribed new to us tetra. Round one failed, so for round two, 2 degrees celsius warmer, with a week of conditioning the females with very rich, egg producing live foods. Then, this time next week if I'm patient and disciplined, the males go in and we see what happens. The water is very soft, and tannin stained at 27c.
It's such a beautiful fish, but I only got 2 males in my group of 8, and I can't afford (or find) more. Here's hoping the solution works.
I don’t know how old your oldest students are but a fabulous work for young people to perform all or parts of is Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen. It is an English vocal piece that loosely follows the story line of Shakespeare’s Mid Summer’s Night Dream. It would make a fabulous end of year performance for middle schoolers. Great music. Great costumes. The piece was composed in the late 1600s but still resonates. It’s quite amusing.
Lanpenn
Fish Fanatic
I was walking the dog down at the beach (it's cold out there) looking for a few rocks, when I found a nice chunk of well rounded green seaglass. It's rare to go there and not see someone with their head down, looking for such treasures, so I'll guess the sea gave it back in yesterday's high surf. It's been a wild winter down there so far.
I would guess it says a sailor or fisherman years ago liked glass bottled ginger ale, and tossed the bottle overboard. It's thick enough it could be an older bottle bottom, or even a piece of something more substantial. It's cheap glass.
After two weeks with almost continual high surf and breakers coming in, the rocky beach is transformed. Even rocks too large for aquarium use have moved inland, and broad areas that have been rocky for the past 3 years are now sandy.
Poseidon switches his aquascapes around even more than we do.
I would guess it says a sailor or fisherman years ago liked glass bottled ginger ale, and tossed the bottle overboard. It's thick enough it could be an older bottle bottom, or even a piece of something more substantial. It's cheap glass.
After two weeks with almost continual high surf and breakers coming in, the rocky beach is transformed. Even rocks too large for aquarium use have moved inland, and broad areas that have been rocky for the past 3 years are now sandy.
Poseidon switches his aquascapes around even more than we do.
lottabubbles
Fish Fanatic
yeah high surf can really change the complexion of the beach
Similar threads
Most reactions
-
386 -
366 -
267 -
248 -
227 -
214 -
170 -
162 -
146 -
123 -
105 -
103 -
96 -
96 -
88