Recent content by Oldspartan

I love watching the babies grow. Seem to go from a pair of swimming eyeballs into actual fish quickly. We keep them for about 10 - 12 weeks before rehoming or taking to the fish store for credit. We have not bought fish in a while but that will change shortly. I am sure whatever we buy will be...

I puttered in my "new" basement workshop. Working on an art deco style silverware stand for DIL as an Christmas gift. Linda has a home visit from a PA from her insurance company. It is a make work for the insurer to justify their annual Medicare endowment. We each put up with one because of the...

I am back -- not that it is too big a deal. My absence was due to my back surgery and Linda's very slow recovery from reverse shoulder surgery. We are both dissatisfied with our procedures. Linda feels she was misled by the surgeon. Her range of motion is very limited and is as good as it will...

I had not talked to Linda about this (her phobia) lately but will do so over Sunday breakfast when she has a full belly and is content in the thought, she has no kitchen clean-up to do. I think she knows in her head there are no identifiers in the room but her heart?

Finally beat back the pond's blanket weed, at least for now. Wound up hand harvesting it with a plastic snow shovel. Boy, it made a mess of the water. Ran the filter on backwash for most of a day and had to replace the filter media in it the following day. Also seeded the water afterwords with...

Woodworking, hardscaping, reading / writing.

Brookies are native to NY -- They were decimated first by road construction and then acid rain. They are making a small comeback though and DEC is hard at work helping them along. The native brookies were really great game fish at one time.

Today, (about 2AM) Linda and I returned from a road trip that was originally figured to last a day. What began as a breakfast in Vermont ended in walks on Long and Short Sands Beaches in the Wells Maine area. How did it happen? I do not really know, it just did. We had the two dogs with us so...

Not signing ... Not against the tariffs at this point in time. I have watched to many local industries move because of various regulations that can be avoided by doing so. Tariffs can be a legitimate offset. I was once intimately involved in the process. The company I worked for owned the...

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I love watching the rainbows. They are like large mouth bass -- thunder on the water. We often feed them last and slowly to enjoy the action. Put small gnats in the tank after a recent hatch and the action was superb. I thought they might knock the cover from its moorings.

Welcome to the tank!

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Removed a snapping turtle from the bog and moved it to a local pond with a similar population. Then went to the bank and withdrew casino money. Thursday is Linda's birthday, and I will take her to Riverside Casino tomorrow where she will most likely play slots while I test my skill at the...

The snapping turtle I removed from the bog this morning thought about this years and some of last years pond fish me thinks based on the predation that has happened iat the pond recently. He was captured and was charged with murder. He was also charged with assault when he attacked the yard...