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I took a nice walk this morning (in the rain) and I can't wait for the day I can put my winter coat away. I live about 90 yards from the sea and in the early morning it is cold and damp. Due to the dampness, there are earthworms all over the streets. Of course I picked up a couple and threw...

My good deed last week was rewarded. Last week as a van in front of me was pulling away and I noticed a wad of hundred dollar bills on his back bumper with a phone. I banged on the side of the truck and gave it to the driver who was very appreciative. Yesterday my wife and I was in a diner...

Yesterday I was talking to someone from my old neighborhood. Not my last neighborhood, the neighborhood I grew up in in Queens New York. I grew up in the 50s and during the 50s and 60s Humans spawned some very weird people. Some Geezers here may remember "Woodstock" (google it) I lived through...

Very busy today.; I am cutting out large pieces of encrusting sponges to eliminate. Much of my reef is blue sponge which looks nice but it takes up most of the real estate. I found 2 big bottles that I totally forgot about because they were fully taken over and covered. I opened up quite a...

It's this blue stuff. Kind of nice looking.

My wife asked me if I could dry them and use them for sponges to wash the car. :oo:

I just spent an hour cutting sponges off my corals and I have the stuff growing all over the place. I do this every few months and it is time consuming but kind of relaxing. I need to do it because if I don't, instead of a reef, I would have a sponge farm. So if you are bored or like delicate...

Yeah, thats what I was thinking. :cautious: Well, I am finished. Water is changed and luckily Petco didn't have those fish. Just some anemic looking clownfish. :)

I am sitting in my workshop/Man cave waiting for my collected water to heat up and I notice the salinity is way to low. I threw in some salt but I don't have enough. Of course I also tested the water in my reef and that is also way to low. :unsure: I can probably keep kissing gouramies and...

Beautiful day here in Long Island today so I collected 40 gallons of water behind my house. The alk was 7 and the temp was 40. I didn't test calcium but the salinity is 1.016. It is crystal clear so I don't have to do anything to it except warm it up and maybe add some salt.

Thank you. I was only going for amazing but I will take talented. :biggrin:

The parts alone are almost $2,000.00 so probably not right now. :p It isn't worth what I would have to charge for it. The central part of the thing is an antique and apparently pretty rare, but someone, thankfully gave it to me. I have about 12 different lamps left and they are all...

I just finished a new lamp. This is made out of a solid brass locomotive oiler from the 1850s. It incorporates a firebulb and two ultraviolet, glowing glass tubes.

If it ever stops raining here I would like to change some water. I don't remember changing any since last summer and I don't want to read back through my posts to figure out when it was. I am not a big water change person and it probably almost never has to be changed but I just feel it should...

Thank you Diana. But I am sure you would have returned it also. :)

Thanks, I didn't make it but it is nice. I think I just made someones day. I went to Home Depot just now and parked my car. As I started walking to the store, a van pulled out of a parking space in front of me and was turning to leave the parking lot. I saw something on his back bumper and...

This Saturday is a year since my best friend of 50 years died of Covid. His wife just got permission to have a Veteran and Police service at Calverton National Cemetery near my house where he is buried which I found out is the largest Veteran Cemetery in the US. (I always thought it was...

ARKNOAH LED I just ordered this one. It is the first one I saw that was in stock and I could get in a couple of days. I don't care what kind it is as they are more or less junk. :confused: I should go back to building my own, but I don't have the time. I may have to go back to work so I...

I never heard of it, but I never heard of almost any of the weird things people's tanks seem to get. One of my Chinese lights croaked. This is the third one I replaced since I am living here for the last three years. I guess you can only get about two years out of these things. Now I buy the...

If you put some clothes on those clowns, you would have even less money.