The only problem with running that trail is that it is too easy to trip and pointing sticks sticking up.
What are you doing today?
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I'm going to do a perilous trail walk this morning, where I might conk my head on an overhanging pine bough, or stub my toe on green limestone.
Every morning the sunrise is a different colour, which would be interesting if it weren't from wildfires. We aren't getting the smoke at the moment, but it shifts in and out with the ever changing winds. We had one small rainy period of a few hours since mid July, and there's nothing major predicted. Showers later in the week. So the fires are contained for now, and just consuming the forests across the Bay.
I've seen photos from the Amazon region where the sky was the colour I'm looking at now.
We had a large cruise ship trapped in port, taking shelter from Hurricane Erin for a couple of days. So people unintentionally end up in a region of great natural beauty when everything is tied down because of outrageously flammable conditions and they couldn't really go anywhere. You can explore this little city in a few hours, maximum, and then what? With no forest trails, national or provincial parks.... not even fishroom visits!
I'm sure a lot of members from arid places would think nothing of crunchy grass. I didn't worry about it in my largely treeless region where i grew up. Millions of crunchy pine trees are another story. It's one seriously interesting world.
Every morning the sunrise is a different colour, which would be interesting if it weren't from wildfires. We aren't getting the smoke at the moment, but it shifts in and out with the ever changing winds. We had one small rainy period of a few hours since mid July, and there's nothing major predicted. Showers later in the week. So the fires are contained for now, and just consuming the forests across the Bay.
I've seen photos from the Amazon region where the sky was the colour I'm looking at now.
We had a large cruise ship trapped in port, taking shelter from Hurricane Erin for a couple of days. So people unintentionally end up in a region of great natural beauty when everything is tied down because of outrageously flammable conditions and they couldn't really go anywhere. You can explore this little city in a few hours, maximum, and then what? With no forest trails, national or provincial parks.... not even fishroom visits!
I'm sure a lot of members from arid places would think nothing of crunchy grass. I didn't worry about it in my largely treeless region where i grew up. Millions of crunchy pine trees are another story. It's one seriously interesting world.
We left South Dakota where we had a great time. Mount Rushmore and the Badlands were stunning. Now we are in North Dakota. Theodore Roosevelt National Park is our next stop.
I've watched a bit of baseball these last few evenings, and there has been this advertisement that perplexes me. I hope it's only on Canadian TV, but.
For a quick moment, you see a brightly lit, cheesily decorated aquarium when suddenly a man steps out from behind it wearing only pee catching underwear. He then proceeds to try to sell said diaper/underwear. Fair enough - some people need these things.
But the aquarium? Does it suggest he has a 50 gallon planted bladder? Is it to symbolize the fear of leaks? Does his aquarium ownership show that even extremely cool and attractive people have bladder leaks? Are his problems caused by bladder snails?
There are things in this world I don't understand.
For a quick moment, you see a brightly lit, cheesily decorated aquarium when suddenly a man steps out from behind it wearing only pee catching underwear. He then proceeds to try to sell said diaper/underwear. Fair enough - some people need these things.
But the aquarium? Does it suggest he has a 50 gallon planted bladder? Is it to symbolize the fear of leaks? Does his aquarium ownership show that even extremely cool and attractive people have bladder leaks? Are his problems caused by bladder snails?
There are things in this world I don't understand.
Caught all of these today! I have looked at the rings that were suggested, but another Idea popped into my head today. Water beetles. I have seen some sites sell them, and I'm considering them. They are a natural predator for larvae.
I'm struck by how weird people with faith in fixed ideas can be. We have wildfire smoke coming in at the level where government and medical sites now say that even if you don't have respiratory issues and are young, you should be very careful. The ground is obviously dry as tinder, and we haven't had significant rain for many weeks, after a winter with minimal snow. We're in an obvious and documented drought - and the dryness is deep in the soil. Yet we have people denying the drought and the fire risk, and saying the fire and ATV in the woods ban in place is a conspiracy. Apparently, if you listen to them, none of this is real.
So I avoid listening to them, but they do make me wonder.
So I'll keep my asthmatic butt inside, close up the fishroom windows and take this as a day when it would be unwise to do what I'd planned. I guess I'll have to suffer and have fun in the fishroom. I think I'll set up Angola barbs to breed in one tank, and cf jae barbs in another. I'll hope for a change in the winds, and for three days of hard rain sometimes soon, anytime soon. There's nothing in the forecast.
So I avoid listening to them, but they do make me wonder.
So I'll keep my asthmatic butt inside, close up the fishroom windows and take this as a day when it would be unwise to do what I'd planned. I guess I'll have to suffer and have fun in the fishroom. I think I'll set up Angola barbs to breed in one tank, and cf jae barbs in another. I'll hope for a change in the winds, and for three days of hard rain sometimes soon, anytime soon. There's nothing in the forecast.
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Sold the Mustang today. Got exactly what I wanted for it. I'm happy.
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First day with the kiddos back today. Got through it with no tears or puddles on the floor, and as far as I know I sent back approximately the same number of kids that the homeroom teachers sent to me. Putting it in the win column.
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Gonna be moving in the next 3 months. Just as I got the aquariums looking as good as they have looked in a while. Murphy's law strikes again.
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I hope it's a good change, Connor.
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It should be.
I went whale watching on the glittering sea off Grand Manan Island in New Brunswick, Canada. We met up with a group of humpbacks. I got to see two of them breach, rising from the waters like 15 metre killifish, and lots of tail wagging as they'd dive. Two of them surfaced about 50 m behind the boat, and they hung around for quite some time.
Then two of them took naps, again, close to where we were drifting. They drifted, we drifted...
I had a good day.
Then two of them took naps, again, close to where we were drifting. They drifted, we drifted...
I had a good day.
large teeth then
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I have seen water beetles when I used to explore a species of marsh close to home (called "brejo" in Portuguese), and I have even gotten water tigers.
Today marks the 8th birthday of the picture below, from a likely female Neocaridina davidi var. red.
I loved these creatures. They were with me during my undergraduate studies while I was living in a simple studio in another city... they never caused me any issues. One day, I saw a shrimp couple having sex (before I started my undergraduate studies). The male was above the female, who was lying supine. Seriously, it is similar to human sex, although with only a few seconds of duration.
My Betta, which is now named Constantino (after more than two years without a name), remains in chastity.
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