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Yeah, but you have actual trees...rain and mist are the price of admission to green places.
I love our deserts, though. The red rock, juniper, sagebrush country is beautiful, especially in spring and early summer when the plants are green. There are dwarf forests of juniper and pine that this trail winds through. It's really nice.
You live in a beautiful area of the world. When we traveled your area and its surrounds were always one of my favorite areas to park for a while. Beautiful, Relaxed, and one of those places I always wanted to sit a spell or explore.
Misty mornings are one of the things I love about where I live. Our "bottom land" often has a nice morning mist that hides the activity of the life down there. I like sitting on the back deck and watching it slowly disperse often revealing Turkey, rabbits, squirrels and the occasional deer.
Neat thing is I can usually predict the misty morns. A day of heat, humidity, and rain followed by a good nighttime cooling usually leaves the area below in a morning mist. Tomorrow it will be so.
I just back from a performance of Missa Solemnis by Beethoven. Very powerful. If you’re religious even more so.
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Learned something about Dan's Fish today. A friend/neighbor drives once, sometimes twice, a week from Sheridan Wyoming to Denver Colorado and back to pick up new fish for Dan's. We were talking earlier today and I found out something about Dan's Fish. I knew he quarantined for at least two weeks but I didn't know the extent he went to as to checking out new fish. Keep in mind that Dan's gets in a LOT of fish. The last order my friend picked up was over 1000 pounds. Of course a lot of that weight is water but still has to be a LOT of fish.
There is a biologist on staff. Don't know if that is Dan but, since he used to be a college professor, he well may be the one. One fish, randomly grabbed from each fish bag, is killed and an autopsy done. Gills and scale structure are examined along with internal autopsy looking for organ and parasite issues. If anything is found the entire bag of fish is treated for the found issue and another fish checked after treatment. The main equipment for doing these autopsy checks is a high powered microscope connected to a computer monitor. I would consider this way above and beyond what a buyer could normally expect. I SO MUCH wish he had an actual store instead of just being on-line fish. As far as care and love for fish Dan is the closest I've seen since a lady named Nancy that owned my LFS of choice before I left Ohio in 1987. Nancy was a PHD Marine biologist specializing in ... I guess you would call it aquatic veterinary care. She would even do surgery on fish if she felt there was a good chance for recovery. I know of at least one case where I was in the store and she was talking to a young couple with a young child that was gently hugging a bag with a fish she had saved. I was close enough that Nancy knew I could hear and winked at me. We weren't just owner/customer as we had also become friends. She told the parents that she lost the invoice so it was free. Of course she never lost the invoice but the smile on the little girl's face was all the payment she needed.
There is a biologist on staff. Don't know if that is Dan but, since he used to be a college professor, he well may be the one. One fish, randomly grabbed from each fish bag, is killed and an autopsy done. Gills and scale structure are examined along with internal autopsy looking for organ and parasite issues. If anything is found the entire bag of fish is treated for the found issue and another fish checked after treatment. The main equipment for doing these autopsy checks is a high powered microscope connected to a computer monitor. I would consider this way above and beyond what a buyer could normally expect. I SO MUCH wish he had an actual store instead of just being on-line fish. As far as care and love for fish Dan is the closest I've seen since a lady named Nancy that owned my LFS of choice before I left Ohio in 1987. Nancy was a PHD Marine biologist specializing in ... I guess you would call it aquatic veterinary care. She would even do surgery on fish if she felt there was a good chance for recovery. I know of at least one case where I was in the store and she was talking to a young couple with a young child that was gently hugging a bag with a fish she had saved. I was close enough that Nancy knew I could hear and winked at me. We weren't just owner/customer as we had also become friends. She told the parents that she lost the invoice so it was free. Of course she never lost the invoice but the smile on the little girl's face was all the payment she needed.
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Just talked again with my friend that drives for Dan's Fish and he said that, no, Dan is not the biologist that does the autopsy. His best guess is that they have a biologist from a local college under retainer to do the checks.
This is all interesting but charging 4x for a common domestic (not wc) species seems excessive. Of course domestic (tank bred) fishes should be disease free if from a reliable wholesaler:
here is a simple example:
https://dansfish.com/product.detail...-Ucayali'-Pair-(1M1F)-(Apistogramma-nijsseni) (the rio part is just a way of making it appear different; as nijjsseni comes from a rather small limited area so basically all a. nijjensi are from the same stream off of rio ucayali so $199 for a domestic bred pair is pretty outrageous.
now here is an alternative from a reputable place:
https://www.wetspottropicalfish.com/product/apistogramma-nijsseni/ ($49) and commonly they are available for $29 $50 - i had purchased a pair of wc earlier this spring $39.
I've only been out west once, as far as Saskatchewan and south along the edge of Montana and across North Dakota. It had a real beauty to it, as an almost 'other planet' version of the world. Now I'm in my somewhat more enclosed Atlantic coast home. I got up this morning and opened the west facing windows out back, listened to the rain and the songbirds in the trees. Then I walked to the front of the house, 25 feet from that window and opened an east facing one. I could hear gulls and surf - the sea has been very loud for the past three days. Sea surf, train whistles and sea birds out front. I still can't see the water, but it's 7:25 in the morning. The light fog will burn off and the water will appear later.
As far as the house goes, there are two micro-worlds on either side of it, two pockets of differing conditions. On the prairies, everything was vast, and the sea was of grasses and crops. Here, the trees and houses, valleys and hills create these different pockets, and I'm lucky my house straddles two of them. The fish garage is in songbird and tree land.
If you get out on the sea in a small boat, you get that big prairie sky. Sometimes in summer, I take a ferry just to be on the water, back and forth to no destination. That's another world out here - porpoises, seals and waves.
It's Sunday, and raining lightly. Yesterday, it was foggy in the morning, and sunny and breezy all afternoon. Friday was sunny all day. Thursday was foggy all day, Wednesday was rainy. That sounds like summer here.
As far as the house goes, there are two micro-worlds on either side of it, two pockets of differing conditions. On the prairies, everything was vast, and the sea was of grasses and crops. Here, the trees and houses, valleys and hills create these different pockets, and I'm lucky my house straddles two of them. The fish garage is in songbird and tree land.
If you get out on the sea in a small boat, you get that big prairie sky. Sometimes in summer, I take a ferry just to be on the water, back and forth to no destination. That's another world out here - porpoises, seals and waves.
It's Sunday, and raining lightly. Yesterday, it was foggy in the morning, and sunny and breezy all afternoon. Friday was sunny all day. Thursday was foggy all day, Wednesday was rainy. That sounds like summer here.
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Posts like this are a big reason that I enjoy having friends from different places. (I used to have pen pals, back when people used to actually write letters) Thank you for sharing the beauty of your morning.
I used to live in colorado and one spring we took a trip to 4 corners and saw the arches - it was may - snow in wolf pass and 100 degree temps at the arches - quite a diverse area; on the way back we stopped at the dunes near colorado spring; lots of diversity.
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Woke up at 430 to go fishing. Slow day today. The sun was in my eyes in the first one.
So my chair to my desk is approx 4 to 6 feet from my 600 which is 4 feet wide and 10 feet long. On the far side some 14 feet from me i have a pair of brooding chcoolate chicild (which i learned the hard way breed quite easily at a very young age); anyway my itsy bits adult female angelfishes decided to wander over to their corner. She got approx 4 feet from their nest when one of them rushed her (we are talking about a fish that is 3 to 4 times longer and 10 to 15 times larger) and she was terrified; i don't think i ever seen her so terrified - so she quickly backed up and i suppose in humans terms prayed it wouldn't bite her. Anyway i suspect she is going to spend the rest of the day next to me as far away as she can get from them.
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Just got done getting my web sites back on-line. I was attacked with over 14,000 outside requests per hour. Seems like all is back to normal but will take a day or so to be sure.
To fix I went to an outfit called Cloudfare for my domain name servers on the recommendation of my hosting. Cloudfare sort of acts like a reverse proxy and has a free version which I used.
To fix I went to an outfit called Cloudfare for my domain name servers on the recommendation of my hosting. Cloudfare sort of acts like a reverse proxy and has a free version which I used.
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