What are you doing today?

[gwand]

I just finished my yoga routine. Now I am sitting in my fish room with a hot cup of coffee and a good view of four of my tanks. In the background, I am playing music by Heinrich Biber, a mid baroque period composer who lived a generation before Johann Sebastian Bach. There is an atmosphere of peace in the room and within the tanks: Africa, South America, Asia and breeder all existing in a brief moment of serenity.

 

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It’s snowing today but nothing to write home about . Cold too and there’s a Barney Miller marathon on the Antenna TV channel so I guess this is a lazy day .

 

[lottabubbles]

It’s snowing today but nothing to write home about . Cold too and there’s a Barney Miller marathon on the Antenna TV channel so I guess this is a lazy day .

watching Barney myself waiting on our big bad weather to arrive. generator on the ready.

 

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watching Barney myself waiting on our big bad weather to arrive. generator on the ready.

They’re at the point in the series where Carl Levitt is featured more often . Ron Carey slays me .

 

[WhistlingBadger]

watching Barney myself waiting on our big bad weather to arrive. generator on the ready.

Barney?! Wow. I blew up a talking Barney doll with home-made fireworks on New Years Eve, one time. Lit the fuse then pulled the string.

"I like being your frie-" BOOOOOOM!!!!

Edit: Oh, you're talking about Barney Miller. That's completely different. I thought you were watching that purple dino-nerf football hybrid freak.

 

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Barney?! Wow. I blew up a talking Barney doll with home-made fireworks on New Years Eve, one time. Lit the fuse then pulled the string.

"I like being your frie-" BOOOOOOM!!!!

You just became my hero . I hope I get the chance to do that exact same thing someday .

 

[WhistlingBadger]

You just became my hero . I hope I get the chance to do that exact same thing someday .

It was rather magnificent, if I may say so. For several years some friends and I had the custom of taking up a collection, purchasing whatever fad toy was really popular from the previous year, and blowing it up on New Years' Eve. It was cleansing, somehow. Teletubbies, Barney, Elmo, Pikachu...they all felt the fury.

 

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It was cleansing, somehow. Teletubbies, Barney, Elmo, Pikachu...they all felt the fury.

You’re killing me Man !

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Well, no explosives are in the works for today, sadly. I was up very late discussing life, the universe, and everything (career plans and prospects, mostly) with Mrs. Badger. Woke up early ($&#!! cat!!), drank some tea, and heat treated a bow before the ladies woke up. Now pondering getting ready for house church. Not that there's much getting ready to do; someone else is hosting today, and we aren't one of those suit-and-tie kind of groups. Might do something about my bed head and change out of my PJ pants into some jeans. Or might not. I don't have anybody to impress, and I strongly doubt that God cares.

Yep, it's another thrilling, high-octane day here at Badger Manor.

 

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Now pondering getting ready for house church.

Very interesting . Sounds like the olden days in Saul also called Paul’s time . I like the sound of it .

 

[Oldspartan]

Well I lucked out today. It was raining off and on which saved me from tilling. Linda has laid out a couple of large beds in an area that has been unused for a number of years so the sod will not till like our regular plots. She is planning on using those two new areas for Quinoa and Amaranth . The area given, 200 square feet each should yield 5 - 6 pounds of each grain.

This is one of her experiments that create work for me.

So today I have listened to old music while admiring the fish. Also watched Hidden Figures. Really enlightening movie that called to mind the nonsense of the past as well as the desire to overcome it.

 

[GaryE]

The dog is sick, and I ended up at the emergency vet last night. She's improving now, but I haven't had a lot of sleep. Nights like that remind me I may be getting older.

I'm still keeping a close eye on things, which puts me in the house with the fish out in the garage. I fed them. Then I discovered a seam split starting at the base of an old 10 gallon that housed a lone Nothobranchius male, an old guy. I moved him drained 2 tanks, took his offline and slotted the other, fishless one into its place.

The dog is wearing the cone of shame, which the bill from the vet said was "an Elizabethan collar". Fancy, eh? My puppy would never behead her relatives!

I do believe I'll watch a baseball game this aft.

 

[JuiceBox52]

Today I got to go to the fire department and take photos with all the lovely medics and EMTS. It was so nice to be able to actually talk to them, all my ambulance calls i can’t speak.

The deputy chief asked if she could hug me which was so sweet

A couple of the medics were having a competition and arguing about who’s been on the most calls with me
“I’ve been on 6 calls to her house”
“well I’ve been on 8 calls”

It was very nice to have a positive experience with them. With an average of 1-2 ambulance calls per week since October they’ve all become a bunch of familiar faces

 

[Oldspartan]

Linda and I just got back from the lab. She for pre-surgical stuff, me for the blood work for my annual very intensive physical. Fed the vampires well and have a hole in my arm that whistles when I walk.

Supposed to flirt with mid-sixties today, BUT it is also another rain day. Seems to be either low 40"s with sunshine or on the warmer side with gushers lately.

Oh well, still have good books, good music, and great company regardless.

When we got home I drained the fry tanks, gave them and deep clean, and refilled them. They will each have some left over fry to keep the cycle intact while Linda waits for the next crew. Next up, after some coffee for my mood, and some whining about the severely large and whistling hole in my arm for some not to be received sympathy, two more water changes.

Then some depression era folk music, a decent book, and perhaps a mimosa or even two to replenish those lost fluids.

 

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The weatherman says cool and wet all week so that means I’m in the fishroom instead of the garden outside for a while . Ahh . . . . such problems to have .