What the heck is "Pho"?
its vietnamese nood soup made with real bone broth lol. I'd be surprised if you don't have a pho restaurant with a reasonable distance of you, the stuff is a miracle cure!
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its vietnamese nood soup made with real bone broth lol. I'd be surprised if you don't have a pho restaurant with a reasonable distance of you, the stuff is a miracle cure!
although 80f in Seattle feels about the same as 105f in Arizona to be honest.
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Dustin. Thank you. She still has pain but not as much. It is supposed to abate over the next 6 weeks.
I just changed some water because I haven't done it in some months and fron eliminating algae I was waiting for all ther nutrients to ebb.
I checked the salinity in my tank to match what I was changing and noticed that my salinity was so low that I could have kept kissing gouramies, Koi and bullfrogs.0
I just changed some water because I haven't done it in some months and fron eliminating algae I was waiting for all ther nutrients to ebb.
I checked the salinity in my tank to match what I was changing and noticed that my salinity was so low that I could have kept kissing gouramies, Koi and bullfrogs.
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6:00 this morning on the beach I made an amazing discovery that will change history.
As I walked looking for sea lions or horseshoe crabs in distress something rusty caught my eye.
It was an oarlock most definitely from one of Columbus lifeboats. I realize history tells us that Columbus never made it to Long Island New York but this proves that there was a glitch in his GPS and he landed here behind my house.
This is Earthshattering news.
As I walked looking for sea lions or horseshoe crabs in distress something rusty caught my eye.
It was an oarlock most definitely from one of Columbus lifeboats. I realize history tells us that Columbus never made it to Long Island New York but this proves that there was a glitch in his GPS and he landed here behind my house.
This is Earthshattering news.
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These beach walks early in the morning are my life. I go there just about every day in the summer and can look 5 miles east and west and almost never see another Human. Not that I have anything against Humans, but I worked in Manhattan most of my life and now I like the peace and solitude.
It gives me time to think and reflect on my past life and ponder the future.
I check out the horseshoe crabs and wonder what they are thinking, especially when they are up side down and have hungry seagulls checking them out. Sometimes I see deer and wonder how they climb the sheer cliff of loose sand when even beetles roll over backwards.
I see birds there that I don't see other places, sometimes tiny bright yellow birds but more often cormorants who dive down in the sea and emerge with a fish.
This morning on the wooden walkway to the beach steps there was a huge Osprey, or sea eagle eating a fairly large fish. I'm not sure if it had ich but I know if it was in some aquarist tanks, they would douse it with Prizapro.
It gives me time to think and reflect on my past life and ponder the future.
I check out the horseshoe crabs and wonder what they are thinking, especially when they are up side down and have hungry seagulls checking them out. Sometimes I see deer and wonder how they climb the sheer cliff of loose sand when even beetles roll over backwards.
I see birds there that I don't see other places, sometimes tiny bright yellow birds but more often cormorants who dive down in the sea and emerge with a fish.
This morning on the wooden walkway to the beach steps there was a huge Osprey, or sea eagle eating a fairly large fish. I'm not sure if it had ich but I know if it was in some aquarist tanks, they would douse it with Prizapro.
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I want to give away my Watchman Gobi. He has gotten a little larger than I like in my tank and I think he ate all my yellow clown gobies as I am missing about 5 of them. I still have blue ones, black ones, green ones and a gray one but the yellows, which were smaller, are gone and he smiles a lot.
He's a lot younger here and now is brown.
There is no way I could catch him with a net so I will have to use a hook and fish for him.
He's a lot younger here and now is brown.
There is no way I could catch him with a net so I will have to use a hook and fish for him.
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2 days ago, about 8:30 in the evening I was ready to jump into the shower. OK, I don't jump any more, but I was just getting into the thing.
Our doorbell rings so I yell to my wife to get it. She yells that she is also ready to get into her bath.
I yell, "I WILL BE RIGHT THERE" and quickly put on a bathing suit because very few people want to see me naked.
I looked out the window in the door and see a tuft of blond hair and I didn't recognize the person. Normally, at that time the only people who would ring my bell is a friend who sometimes brings me fresh fish he just caught, or my neighbor next door who bakes a lot and often brings us some cake or pie.
It wasn't either of them, so I opened the door and saw a woman about 55 years old who I didn't recognize, and I assumed she wanted me to sign a petition for something that I was probably against. That wasn't the case.
She said she saw me on the news from last year about my Vietnam story of a little girl who wrote me a Christmas card while I was in Nam.
She lives behind me here in the same development and she asked people playing pickleball if anyone knew me and where I lived.
I said: Can I help you? She wasn't holding a cup, so I figured she didn't want to borrow a cup of sugar, and she wasn't a Supermodel asking directions, so I had no idea who she was. She proceeded to explain to me that she was writing a fiction book about some guy who went to Vietnam to find his girlfriend or something like that. I wasn't paying too much attention as I wanted to take a shower.
My wife yelled "COME IN". which she did. She said she took a creative writing course, and although she knows nothing about the Vietnam War, she wanted to write this story about it and needed some input from someone who was there. She also said she ordered my Vietnam book.
She asked me many questions about the war and I lent her a book about a severe battle I was in but explained to her that it had a lot of military jargon in it and even I didn't understand much of it but she wanted to read it anyway. My book is much simpler because I am a simple guy.
She stayed about 45 minutes, and I hope to read her book if she finishes it.
Our doorbell rings so I yell to my wife to get it. She yells that she is also ready to get into her bath.
I yell, "I WILL BE RIGHT THERE" and quickly put on a bathing suit because very few people want to see me naked.
I looked out the window in the door and see a tuft of blond hair and I didn't recognize the person. Normally, at that time the only people who would ring my bell is a friend who sometimes brings me fresh fish he just caught, or my neighbor next door who bakes a lot and often brings us some cake or pie.
It wasn't either of them, so I opened the door and saw a woman about 55 years old who I didn't recognize, and I assumed she wanted me to sign a petition for something that I was probably against. That wasn't the case.
She said she saw me on the news from last year about my Vietnam story of a little girl who wrote me a Christmas card while I was in Nam.
She lives behind me here in the same development and she asked people playing pickleball if anyone knew me and where I lived.
I said: Can I help you? She wasn't holding a cup, so I figured she didn't want to borrow a cup of sugar, and she wasn't a Supermodel asking directions, so I had no idea who she was. She proceeded to explain to me that she was writing a fiction book about some guy who went to Vietnam to find his girlfriend or something like that. I wasn't paying too much attention as I wanted to take a shower.
My wife yelled "COME IN". which she did. She said she took a creative writing course, and although she knows nothing about the Vietnam War, she wanted to write this story about it and needed some input from someone who was there. She also said she ordered my Vietnam book.
She asked me many questions about the war and I lent her a book about a severe battle I was in but explained to her that it had a lot of military jargon in it and even I didn't understand much of it but she wanted to read it anyway. My book is much simpler because I am a simple guy.
She stayed about 45 minutes, and I hope to read her book if she finishes it.
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Wow, I just went on Amazon to order new sneakers, or running shoes. I go through a lot of shoes because I walk at least 2 miles every morning and in the summer that is on a beach that is covered in rocks and pebbles.
I was going to re-order the same as I bought the last 3 times and now they are $300.00. When I was a kid there was only one kind of sneaker, "US Keds" and they were $1.75.
I just found the same pair on Amazon for $200.00 which I still feel is robbery but as an American Patriot, I only buy American if they are available, so I ordered the $200.00 pair. I still think it's a crime to pay that much for a shoe that probably costs $12.00 to make, but it is what it is.
I was going to re-order the same as I bought the last 3 times and now they are $300.00. When I was a kid there was only one kind of sneaker, "US Keds" and they were $1.75.
I just found the same pair on Amazon for $200.00 which I still feel is robbery but as an American Patriot, I only buy American if they are available, so I ordered the $200.00 pair. I still think it's a crime to pay that much for a shoe that probably costs $12.00 to make, but it is what it is.
What shoes do you buy Paul?
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I think these are the only American sneakers that are still made here so I always buy them. Nike's, Adidas, Sketchers, Puma and all those are from China, the Philippines, Vietnam or some other place that is not America, so I won't wear them. A whole lot of Americans died for this country so I buy American if it is possible. 
When they stop making them, I may have to build my own. But I am a Patriot. 
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Are they American? It doesn't say and they are $50.00 more than the American-made New Balance.
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According to my father in law they are. All he will wear. There are different styles that are more or less.
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Yesterday I took my 11 year old Grand Son fishing on a party boat out of the east end of the North Fork of Long Island right near Plum Island where the Government did experiments on animals giving us ticks that carry Limes disease and probably two headed goats.
WE woke up early and he wanted a hard boiled egg which my wife made the night before. I peeled a hard boiled egg for him and put it in the microwave for 10 seconds.
At about 8 seconds, I hear this big explosion and being a combat Veteran, I hit the deck.
Then I realized the egg exploded, causing the microwave door to crash open and depositing pieced of egg all over the kitchen. I mean I didn't think there was so much egg in an "egg".
Thank God my cleaning fanatic wife wasn't up.
I cleaned much of it up with a hand vac which I had to then take apart to wash and wiped up all the rest of egg on the stove, wall and floor so Teddy didn't get to eat his egg.
Because of all the time I wasted cleaning up egg I only had one cup of coffee where I normally have 3 before I leave. Now I know what it means to go out with egg on your face.
We went downstairs where my friend Richie was waiting as he came with us .
WE drove about 35 minutes to the boat, The "Peconic Star IV" and we were the first "fishermen" there.
There was Captain Paul and Captain Rachelle" (I think). I introduced us as Captain Paul and Captain Richie because we are both Captains.
Soon other fishermen came aboard and 3 of them were young girls about 20 with their boyfriends, or bodyguards.
We left the dock and headed out. There are lighthouses all over the east end of Long Island in various stages of disintegration as some of them are 200 years old. This one is pretty good.
We got to the first spot and dropped out lines. Teddy almost immediately caught a tiny sea bass, which we threw back.
In a few minutes we all started catching fish, mostly porgies as that is what we were going for. Porgies are normally not that big but they have to be at least 11" to keep so we threw back the smaller ones. We did catch some fluke and sea bass but those were all to small.
Teddy, who was fishing about 10' from me yells "Hey Pop Pop, what's that?"
I look out and say thats a buoy. The Captain looks out and says, no, Thats a "Great White Shark".
I looked closer to the boat and saw this fin sticking out of the water about a foot and a half and he was heading for our boat. Of course I immediately yelled out "We are going to need a Bigger boat".
The thing was about 10 or 12' long and swam under out 60' boat without eating any of us. They normally go for accountants, and I don't think we had any on board.
We also didn't have any lawyers which is a good thing because I may have been tempted to throw one over which would have given the shark indigestion.
In a while, Teddy caught his first porgy. This is the Captain holding it.
Between the three of us we caught about 18 porgy keepers. This is one of 3 5-gallon buckets of them. Richiw also caught a small sand shark which we threw back.
Captain Rachelle cleaned the fish and my best friend Richie caught the biggest porgy at 15" and he won the pot of $75.00 which the 3 of us split.
At home I cooked the fish and we had a feast. It was a very good day.
WE woke up early and he wanted a hard boiled egg which my wife made the night before. I peeled a hard boiled egg for him and put it in the microwave for 10 seconds.
At about 8 seconds, I hear this big explosion and being a combat Veteran, I hit the deck.
Then I realized the egg exploded, causing the microwave door to crash open and depositing pieced of egg all over the kitchen. I mean I didn't think there was so much egg in an "egg".
Thank God my cleaning fanatic wife wasn't up.
I cleaned much of it up with a hand vac which I had to then take apart to wash and wiped up all the rest of egg on the stove, wall and floor so Teddy didn't get to eat his egg.
Because of all the time I wasted cleaning up egg I only had one cup of coffee where I normally have 3 before I leave. Now I know what it means to go out with egg on your face.
We went downstairs where my friend Richie was waiting as he came with us .
WE drove about 35 minutes to the boat, The "Peconic Star IV" and we were the first "fishermen" there.
There was Captain Paul and Captain Rachelle" (I think). I introduced us as Captain Paul and Captain Richie because we are both Captains.
Soon other fishermen came aboard and 3 of them were young girls about 20 with their boyfriends, or bodyguards.
We left the dock and headed out. There are lighthouses all over the east end of Long Island in various stages of disintegration as some of them are 200 years old. This one is pretty good.
We got to the first spot and dropped out lines. Teddy almost immediately caught a tiny sea bass, which we threw back.
In a few minutes we all started catching fish, mostly porgies as that is what we were going for. Porgies are normally not that big but they have to be at least 11" to keep so we threw back the smaller ones. We did catch some fluke and sea bass but those were all to small.
Teddy, who was fishing about 10' from me yells "Hey Pop Pop, what's that?"
I look out and say thats a buoy. The Captain looks out and says, no, Thats a "Great White Shark".
I looked closer to the boat and saw this fin sticking out of the water about a foot and a half and he was heading for our boat. Of course I immediately yelled out "We are going to need a Bigger boat".
The thing was about 10 or 12' long and swam under out 60' boat without eating any of us. They normally go for accountants, and I don't think we had any on board.
We also didn't have any lawyers which is a good thing because I may have been tempted to throw one over which would have given the shark indigestion.
In a while, Teddy caught his first porgy. This is the Captain holding it.
Between the three of us we caught about 18 porgy keepers. This is one of 3 5-gallon buckets of them. Richiw also caught a small sand shark which we threw back.
Captain Rachelle cleaned the fish and my best friend Richie caught the biggest porgy at 15" and he won the pot of $75.00 which the 3 of us split.
At home I cooked the fish and we had a feast. It was a very good day.
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