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They are indeed very cool!
Yesterday the "Honor Flight" organization invited me along with 50 other Veterans who came on the flight to Washington DC with me to a reunion where they honored us again with a big presentation and band. They read my Army Bio. as they did with everyone else. I didn't realize it but it was televised. We went to a diner this morning and someone pointed out that I was on TV which was playing while we were there.
(Only about 35 Vets showed up.) It was in an air museum where they have about 30 working WW2 air craft including Japanese Zero's and German planes. They even flew a Bi-plane.
(Only about 35 Vets showed up.) It was in an air museum where they have about 30 working WW2 air craft including Japanese Zero's and German planes. They even flew a Bi-plane.
I have a lot more hair algae in my tank now than I would like. It's from the Long Island Sound water that I collect and I can't collect it any more because of the nutrients from all the golf courses and farms around here. If I want to collect NSW now I have to travel almost an hour east to get cleaner water and I don't know how many times I want to do that.
Collecting in the winter shouldn't be a problem.
Where I collect now, the boulders on the shoreline are covered in algae.
Collecting in the winter shouldn't be a problem.
Where I collect now, the boulders on the shoreline are covered in algae.
I have an idea for a TV show. Instead of the NEWS stations telling you the forecast for the weather today and tomorrow, I think I would like to make a station that tells you yesterday and last weeks weather. This way, no one can complain because it will always be correct. 
This morning at almost sunrise I went down to the beach armed with a bucket to collect amphipods. I knew it would be a very low tide.
But nothing. Not one amphipod where there should have been millions. This is scary because after the amphipods are gone, whose next?
I did see many invasive Japanese shore crabs and tiny eels but thats it.
I did swirl algae and barnacle covered rocks in my bucket of seawater just for the bacteria and hopefully baby amphipods.
I will take this water/mud and strain it in a rotifer filter to at least get some bacteria. Later, if I get time, I will put it under a microscope tosee if I got anything.
But nothing. Not one amphipod where there should have been millions. This is scary because after the amphipods are gone, whose next?
I did see many invasive Japanese shore crabs and tiny eels but thats it.
I did swirl algae and barnacle covered rocks in my bucket of seawater just for the bacteria and hopefully baby amphipods.
I will take this water/mud and strain it in a rotifer filter to at least get some bacteria. Later, if I get time, I will put it under a microscope tosee if I got anything.
These guys also "may" be spawning, but I can't find their nest. Or maybe they are just trying to see who has the best stripe.. 
These guys are also pretty old as one of them is from my last house and I have lived here for 6 years so one may be 10 or 12.
When they are young, the look like this as this is the same fish
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These guys are also pretty old as one of them is from my last house and I have lived here for 6 years so one may be 10 or 12.
When they are young, the look like this as this is the same fish
I'm going to try to list my fish, mostly for my benefit but I don't know what many of them are.
2 Fireclowns
3 Red Waspfish
7, 9 or 10 clown gobies, different colors. Green, Black, blue, yellow and gray
2 six line wrasses
2 Possum Wrasses.
1 some kind of red fish, maybe a cardinal, I have no idea and don't remember buying it
1 Hippo Tang
1 Other tang, it will come to me. Tamini, or something like that.
1 Chalk Bass
2 Bangai Cardinals
2 Sunburst Anthius
3 Neon Gobies
3 Hectors gobies
1 Black something
1 Filefish
2 Blue stripe pipefish
2 Watchman Gobies
2 Mandarins
1 Red Scooter Dragonette
1 Perchlet
2-3- or 4 small bleenies
2 Possum Wrasses
1 Long Nose Hawkfish
1 Ruby Red dragonette
So about 50 fish. I'm sure I missed one of two.
2 Fireclowns
3 Red Waspfish
7, 9 or 10 clown gobies, different colors. Green, Black, blue, yellow and gray
2 six line wrasses
2 Possum Wrasses.
1 some kind of red fish, maybe a cardinal, I have no idea and don't remember buying it
1 Hippo Tang
1 Other tang, it will come to me. Tamini, or something like that.
1 Chalk Bass
2 Bangai Cardinals
2 Sunburst Anthius
3 Neon Gobies
3 Hectors gobies
1 Black something
1 Filefish
2 Blue stripe pipefish
2 Watchman Gobies
2 Mandarins
1 Red Scooter Dragonette
1 Perchlet
2-3- or 4 small bleenies
2 Possum Wrasses
1 Long Nose Hawkfish
1 Ruby Red dragonette
So about 50 fish. I'm sure I missed one of two.
Yesterday we took our yearly trip about 77 miles to Arthur Ave. In the Bronx. It is the only Italian neighborhood left in New York and maybe the east coast. Our Daughter graduated from Fordham University so we used to go there often as it is walking distance from there.
We went with 8 friends and ate the best food you can get in the US. (If you like real Italian food) There are oyster bars on the sidewalk which of course I couldn't pass up. The markets make olive oil so you can get real olive oil, something that you really can't get anywhere in the US. The stuff we can buy here, even at fifty bucks a gallon is cut with a lot of cheap oils. Maybe Sunoco oil.
There is a huge difference and if you have ever been to Italy you can tell right away.
The Barrotta, buffalo mozzarella is made with whipped cream, right out of a cow and set to mingle for a week. The olive oil you put on bread had 7 vegetables in it plus a little honey.
I had the best linguine and clams I have had since last year when I went there, even better than my own because I can't get the ingredients here. Not even in Little Italy in Manhattan any more. We started with octopus salad and pizza that most Americans would not recognize as pizza. The stuff we buy here is not made in Italy. We get American Pizza here just like our Chinese food would not be recognized in China.
It's also topped with meats that I can't spell in English.
Most places have no menu and only take cash. .
I bought some $15.00 cigars that the guy who has been there for 40 years makes in front of you. He doesn't speak a word of English. He has barrels of tobacco leaves and a huge press. I myself don't smoke them but many years ago I did. I give them to friends who do.
I bought 6 pounds of home made pasta that they make while you wait. We will give much of it to friends.
We also stocked up on home made sausage, hot and sweet along with brasiole and other Italian meats. The sausages they make in front of you.
We also never pass up Madonia bakery and stocked up on olive bread. It's only baked there and you can't get anything similar here. We will have it for breakfast today after I come back from my walk.
I really love that place, as you may be able to tell.
We went with 8 friends and ate the best food you can get in the US. (If you like real Italian food) There are oyster bars on the sidewalk which of course I couldn't pass up. The markets make olive oil so you can get real olive oil, something that you really can't get anywhere in the US. The stuff we can buy here, even at fifty bucks a gallon is cut with a lot of cheap oils. Maybe Sunoco oil.
There is a huge difference and if you have ever been to Italy you can tell right away.
The Barrotta, buffalo mozzarella is made with whipped cream, right out of a cow and set to mingle for a week. The olive oil you put on bread had 7 vegetables in it plus a little honey.
I had the best linguine and clams I have had since last year when I went there, even better than my own because I can't get the ingredients here. Not even in Little Italy in Manhattan any more. We started with octopus salad and pizza that most Americans would not recognize as pizza. The stuff we buy here is not made in Italy. We get American Pizza here just like our Chinese food would not be recognized in China.
It's also topped with meats that I can't spell in English.
Most places have no menu and only take cash. .
I bought some $15.00 cigars that the guy who has been there for 40 years makes in front of you. He doesn't speak a word of English. He has barrels of tobacco leaves and a huge press. I myself don't smoke them but many years ago I did. I give them to friends who do.
I bought 6 pounds of home made pasta that they make while you wait. We will give much of it to friends.
We also stocked up on home made sausage, hot and sweet along with brasiole and other Italian meats. The sausages they make in front of you.
We also never pass up Madonia bakery and stocked up on olive bread. It's only baked there and you can't get anything similar here. We will have it for breakfast today after I come back from my walk.
I really love that place, as you may be able to tell.
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