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Fantastic. What was the water temperature?

Mountain snowmelt water like that isn’t measured by either Fahrenheit or Celsius but by the scrotum shrink scale .

 

[jaylach]

I'm watching Little League playoff baseball right now. I totally LOVE watching these young kids play! It amazes me as to just how good these 11-12 year old kids are at the game.

 

[anewbie]

To day i will do the water change on the discus aquarium and lower the light intensity another 10%; then i will clean out last month di risen canisters; then i will take a shower; then i will maybe go to the store and buy some cherries before cherry season end. Then i might get a hair-cut before getting the cherries. Then i will probably go back home and try to forget the lousy dream i had then I will probably cook something perhaps a sweet potato. Then i will cut some chicken wire to put aruond the clematis the deers like eating. Then i will have to think of what to do but maybe i will forget to think about what to do as i will still have most of the day left to do nothing.

 

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Went to the doctor this morning . My right arm isn’t broken but more shattered or crushed . I have a cast now and in four weeks they will x-ray it again and see if it’s healing on its own . Things are looking up . I’ll live .

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Nice hike/field archery session in the desert this morning.

 

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Nice hike/field archery session in the desert this morning.
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Oh Man ! I like that kind of country . Mountains are nice and all but this is a whole different world with its own beauty . Look how far you can see ! Not sure desert is how I’d describe it though . High prairie maybe ?

 

[Lanpenn]

While the current "crush" has more mysteries than any environmental law in Brazil, I remain with my drawings and poetry. I even wrote another poem in English! I even started to do functional training and yoga because of this! That is impressive. Yoga seems weird, but I am open to improving that. Fortunately, there are more "crushes" than jobs available (yes, seriously). Next week I intend to talk to my probably future therapist about that and something else, so do not worry about that.

I was talking to a colleague of mine who is also a biologist, and he suggested that I write a simple book about saltwater aquariums to be distributed to aquarium shops across the region. I never had any saltwater aquarium, but I know about the subject to some extent. I have free time to write, although no money to buy good material. I think about checking Google Scholar articles, Open Library from Internet Archive, and forums such as... this one where I am writing that post! I love to write, as you can see right now while you read my post. If this helps me make money, all right. My father had bought some books about Marine Biology for me. I have read one of them and I am finishing another.

 

[jaylach]

Rather sad today. A lady in my apartments died. Don't really know any facts at this time but apparently it was probably a suicide. We weren't real close but we spoke now and then and were friendly. Not sure why but she had told another friend that she didn't want to see her 65th birthday which seems was close. I'm guessing that her husband died at that age and she didn't want to live longer than he. She also told the other friend that all she wanted was to find her husband in another life.

Sadly such things are not all that uncommon. I just wish that I would have been more aware of what she was feeling as, mayhaps, I could have given more support. Still, when a person seriously decides they want to die, there is not a lot you can do to prevent.

I'll miss her. She was a really nice lady.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Oh Man ! I like that kind of country . Mountains are nice and all but this is a whole different world with its own beauty . Look how far you can see ! Not sure desert is how I’d describe it though . High prairie maybe ?

I think "sagebrush steppe" is the technical term for the habitat type. But nobody around here calls it that, except maybe wildlife biologists and such. Everybody just calls it "the desert." Up around Worland everybody calls sagebrush country "the badlands," although technically badlands refers to a specific type of highly eroded clay/rock hill country.

But whatever you call it, yeah, it has its own beauty, and I like it too. It isn't show-stopper stuff you can get out the car window, like the mountains. It's more subtle. You have to get out and walk in it, smell the sagebrush and juniper, jump a cottontail off its bed, get a quick glimpse of a lizard, watch your step through a prickly pear patch, jump halfway out of your skin when you almost step on a snake, spot a beautiful flower growing in a completely unexpected place, thread your way through a bunch of big rock outcrops that look like they are hiding mysteries (and occasionally are)... I always feel better after some time in the desert.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Working down some juniper logs. Don’t know if I will get any bows from these—most of them are twisted—but my shop smells WONDERFUL.

 

[GaryE]

It would be interesting to see where each other lives (as in the town or area) and where we all like to go in that region. Favourite places. We live in a lot of different countries, and while it's a small group on this thread, there are places out there for armchair travel. As a mod keeping an eye on new memberships, we are quietly expanding into Asia more and more. That makes sense, as the hobby is growing there.

But we all have different senses of normal. @WhistlingBadger 's desert looks like a lot of western movies to me, so different from my dense pine forests ending at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. We're a bunch of exotic beasts.

I'm only 3 years into living on the coast, and I'm learning how quickly it beats up our human creations. The fog works in mysterious ways, and keeping the house is a bit like having a boat must be sometimes. I have scraped the stairs, and today, paint coat two goes on. Next summer, probably round three of that.

But we reserved 5 hours on a lobster boat at the end of the month, hoping to hang out with the humpback whales and the dolphins again. We could see gannets, or right whales, minkes and finbacks too. There's always a slight chance of a blue whale, though that happens only once every few years. I sometimes see harbour porpoises or seals from the shore across the road, though not often.

I think I shared this here last summer, but these once uncommon visitors to our region, Atlantic White Sided Dolphins, have been coming in much more as the sea warms. Last summer there was a pod of a couple of hundred, and this year they're around in roving bands of a dozen or so.

 

[Lanpenn]

I am sorry for the loss, jaylach. Depression is common in my mother's family (although I do not know about your neighbor's case). My great-grandfather lived so much (1888-1971), but despite that, he probably suffered from depression in her later life, because during my mother's infancy, he was always in bed, extremely quiet, and complaining about his hurts after going for a walk in the street.

There are some stereotypes among Germans, such as being cold people... but although I'm a German Brazilian, there are more genes among them. I have indigenous ancestry, Portuguese... some of my ancestors had blue eyes and are taller than average, but this is rare, especially in Brazil. When I lived in Florida, I saw many more people with blue eyes, mainly blonde women.

The page below is from "Deutsche Söldner in Brasilien", by Helmut Andrä. My great-great-grandfather (is there an English term for "tataravô"?) would be Johann Lange (probably naturalized as "João André Lange"), the one who is 20 years old, a musician in the 27th Jäger Battalion. His brother would be Johann Wilhelm Lange (probably naturalized as "João Guilherme Lange"), 29 years old, soldier in the same battalion (what would be "Schreiber"?). The questions are also: what do "S15-298" and "M7-298" mean? And about "S6" and "M1-38" (or "MI")? And the "L"?

I have bought a smartphone support, because I intend to record myself while I am drawing. What do you think about that?

 

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@GaryE I think you live in an interesting and certainly very scenic area . Where @WhistlingBadger and @jaylach live is right on the edge of three major ranges in the greater Rocky Mountains , the Wind River , Bighorn and Beartooth Mountains . Those three groups are almost joined but separated by high prairie and grasslands . We have abundant wildlife . Moose , elk , antelope , whitetail and mule deer , grizzly bears , black bears , wolves , coyotes , bobcats , lynx , wolverines and so forth . You have to get out and look but they are there . Then there’s the fish . Cold water gamefish like trout and salmon . Local people know where to go where it’s all but deserted by people . I know places where you can go hiking or backpacking and not see another soul for days .
What interests me is where @Innesfan lives . He posted a picture of his roses sitting on a windowsill looking out at New York City . To my eye it looked much like the opening scene in Green Acres where you see New York from Oliver Wendell Douglas’ penthouse . I don’t think I’d like to live in NYC but I would like to see it . There’s everything there for everyone .

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Roughing out a character bow. “Character” is bowyer code for “twisty and dang near impossible to work with, but too much potential for amazingness to pass up.” I like to think that’s how God sees me. As with bow making, so with life.

 

[GaryE]

That New York City shot caught my eye too. I could easily spend some time there, though when it comes to major cities, there are others I'd choose to live in first. I've always enjoyed visits there, although having spent a night in Newark Airport once, not all the region is nice.

I like huge places - you can be alone in them as no one pays any attention to individuals wandering around, unless they want to rob them. I figure I could live happily in a mega city, or in a small city like where I am now. In between is the issue. I don't think I'd last in Wyoming.

NYC had legendary aquarium stores. I hope some still survive.