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talk about fish tails....boreinggggg.......i get my saltwater fish out of the hmmmmm saltwater...talk about good eatin, now theres a topic....hehee

Lots of new power plants in planning around the country...even nukes are being drawn up.....

We got a new solid fuel plant planned to start building soon here for Cleco....Shaw got that bid....Shaw is also deeply and broadly involved with hurricane recovery projects all along the gulf...long term-big budget projects....The Shaw Group...NYSE ticker SGR...check 'em out....They might want a smart young engineer who wants to move deep south.....and learn to BBQ chicken properly

How do you know till you tried one?....I heard if you wipe them down with bacon grease and put them on a spit over a low fire, that they taste pretty good.

Charmin, I'm thinkin Steven needs to spend his remaining years in a more forgiving and restful place.....Maybe a house on stilts up in the cypress tops next to a lilly pad covered lake like we got here....We ain't got white swans like NYC, but we got Egrets and coons.....He might fit in once he learns fish are for eating and not looking at.....You think Steven could handle it?....I would have to introduce him to our skeeters and he would have to learn to stand flat footed and look them straight in the eye or they would suck him dry, tho.

Never really went salt water fishing.  Just fishing off've a pier on the Long Island sound... Besides the occassional eel swalling the hook...never caught much.

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gotta love that swallin speelin....

kappy, i don't remember if i've told you before....my brother has 4 or 5 tanks set up....i just gave him a 150 gallon and 55 gallon.....i have noooooooo idea what he has....he has to give me the fish tour every time i visit but i never can remember....they sure are purty though....

Does your brother have salt water ?   Some of them really are gorgeous,  those irredescent blues, and hot colors.. Really are pretty fish. I was fascinated with the invertebrates. Like the Anemone's, Sea Horses, (Never wanted a Lion Fish tho..I was different, I had no desire for a dangerous critter)  Sea Horses were so terribly sensitive to the smallest amounts of copper in water, they were close to impossible for me to keep alive....  Assuming you are talking about Salt water...

You had a 150 gallon tank ?  WOW...125 gallon was the biggest sized tank one would find in a pet shop that wasn't a custom-made or ordered tank...Most stores didn't stock bigger because 55, 75, and 125 (which was often purchased as a terrarium) just was big for most households of standard hubbyists.. People didn't have some of the species they have today. Breeding Discus and larger cichlids was very difficult in captivity, Angels just weren't bred in captivity in the 60's.... People didn't have fish larger than Oscars, or some of the Larger Cichlids.. 125 tanks were usually a few large cichlids... With about three or four filters running and no plants...because those fish would tear up everything that wasn't anchored down,  they were messy (because they were so big), and you had to be careful as to how you'd aquascape the tank because they'd cut themselves on sharper shale, etc...

JEanne,   What did you keep in a 150 gallon tank ? That's BIG !  Few that had a tank that large in those days (assuming it was for fish) weren't SERIOUS hobbyists...

Billy and me breed gerbils and keep them in our tanks  :hug:

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I'm ready for Happy Acre's  :drunk:.  

I just remember a dream I had last night ... I was back in college.. Yet at 50 I thought it inappropriate for me to be one of the 1/4 of the metriculated dorm population that had to have a roommate because it'd hinder my sexlife   So the bulk of the dream was spent debating with campus housing why after 31 years of undergraduate enrollment at the same school and as a student who's been a Jr. at the school for the past 31 years, it was time I was granted my own room.. considering there were Freshmen who had single rooms... Yet this dream was VERY different than other dreams I've had... In this dream the girls looked and acted WAY too young for me, It turned out I didn't want to stay the rest of the year to bring my Cumulative average up to a passing area so I could maybe graduate next year.. This is one of the first dreams where I realized.... I'm WAY too old for these youngsters.... I'm not interested in socializing with them, and they won't like me... We are a lifetime apart...  HOPEFULLY,  I will soon stop having this recurring dream about having to keep repeating college because I'm flunking, (and have been enrolling yearly since I was 17.....Awful dream...The courses are ALOT tougher now, than when I was a teenager too.... Any of you ever notice that in your back to school dreams ?   That is the courses you go to ?  This time I even went to a few...BORING...

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may have been a 125 gallon steve....about the size of a coffin i'd say.... i kept my turtles in it when they were smaller....didn't take long for them to outgrow it....

 nope....not gonna say a word......

you are such a goofbutt.....

geezzzzzz, whenever i dream i'm back in school, it's just about me panicking because i can't remember my locker combination.....lord i must have an empty brain....  (shut up billyyyyy....)

   Caught a Mink coat, and a toy poodle....  <rimshot>

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Haha, no, I am watching my diet nowadays..... eating a greasy New Yorker might just undo all the good eating habits I've gotten myself used to.

And, I assume those Louisiana skeeters would be about the same as the ones in East Texas bay area where I lived......... about the size of crows..... but alot more vicious.  LOL

Not many people raised in the city could move to such places and be able to handle it. With the skeeters, and the scorpions, and alligators.... city people usually run.  It takes getting used to, or just growing up around it. IMO

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Another critter we New Englanders don't know much about, "Alligators".

Are they really as dangerous as people might believe, or are these attacks (occasionally heard about) as likely as getting struck by lightening..  meaning if you swim in a water hole with a nest and guarding mother... You might have a reason to fear getting attacked, just as you would have a reason to fear getting struck by lightening if you were standing in an open field during an electrical storm.  Yet on the golf courses, how often do the gators start sprinting after golfers to attack them running at their short sprints of 30 mph ?   That just doesn't happen, does it ?  and they are all over golf courses even as far north as the Carolina's.... (at least this is what I thought)

We Northerner's are quirky people,  we tend not to travel extensively to states where you have to step over a 13 foot Burmese Python that just exploded after eating a 6 foot alligator, to get to the airplane..

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Haha, the vision your putting in my head Steven.  :no:  It's almost 2 am here, and I'm off to bed..... now I'm likely gonna dream about men in suits & ties getting chased down the runway by giant snakes.

I'm not (personally) very familiar with alligators. They were mostly in the sloughs in Texas, where you fished. (or, on rare occasions, YOU WERE fished, hahaha)   Though once in a bad rain storm... (in that area of Texas, one hour of rain creates a mini-flood, which can  drain away just as quickly when the rain stops, haha).... a gator washed up into my mother in laws front yard from the crick across the road. Skeery stuff. I have no use for alligators- I prefer my boots made of deerskin, and I would never eat alligator stew- so they serve no purpose to me.  LOL

I have dealt with my fair share of scorpions, and stinging centipedes. At my grandma's in New Braunfels,Texas, we had to squash them just as someone elsewhere would see a spider on the wall and squash it.  It was common. And the fire ants....  they were a given. I hated those things, but it only takes once.... then you learn pretty fast to dodge little mounds of dirt or sand in the yard.  And the snakes..... always, always had snakes in the wood pile. Going out to get an armload of wood took sheer bravery. Gosh, and I complain about OREGON!!  LOL  I should count my blessings. About the worst we have here is wolf spiders, and harmless garden snakes.  Not even any tornadoes.

Anyhow, Charm is tired, g'night everybody. (or is anyone else up still? haha)  :wave:

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I am a NY'er.  NOT from the big apple, but waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay up north... in the forgotten and GORGEOUS part of NY .... waaaaaaaaaaay up past Albany (the capital) even north of Lake Placid (1980 winter OLYMPICS).  Guess I'm closer to bein' a New Englander .... only about 20 minutes and a large lake away from VT (Burlington, that is).  

Ain't never had a mink coat, me ... so ... if you is fixin' to cookin' me .. just be sure to use lots of beer ... so I come out well done, but tender.

I don't like spiders and snakes  (or them there gators, or scorpions, or any rodent critters either) ... or very tall buildings, or lots of polution, or noisy streets ... or drive by fruitings.  

Guessin' Im just gonna stay fixed right here in NY ... with the Adirondack Mountains, , Lake Champlain and Champy .. the lake serpent.  

I hear there's been another sighting... down near Bulwaga Bay ~ Gotta see if I can rent a camp there this summer ... and get me a glimpse.

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Gators.....I got this problem right now with gators and don't know what to do about it.

I've housed a hurricane evacuee for 6 months now. He is a great guy...54, works with me in same job, quiet as a mouse, cleans up after himself, never been married, no personality issues, he helps with the horses and anything else that comes up....The guy is full blood Italian...he was born in the French Quarter of New Orleans and he is a great cook.

He goes back to New Orleans every weekend to work on his house and then brings back speciality foods for us to try....So far, so good....Except this last weekend he brought back a huge chunk of gator tail and stuffed it in the freezer.....I don't care for gator meat....I've tried it....He never has eaten or cooked it, but decided he would "treat" me to some.

So I expect soon he will thaw that stuff out and offer it up for us to grill/fry/bake or whatever......I'm going to need some recipies then.....

Anyone have experience with gator tail?....One guy told me to boil it in water spiced with hot sauce and mustard, then deep fry it....

Well, I may not cook you, but I fersure would rub you down with bacon grease and then see if I could keep a grip

You upstate yankee gals tend to be a little fluffy...I like that.

Well this fluffy NY'er is an Italian gal... so ya may wanna consider OLIVE OIL... rather than that there bacon grease ... It'll go better with that HOT BLOOD we fluffy Italian gals are known for....  :dancin:

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Man......It's Saturday morning....Most of you are sleeping snug.....I got woke up at 3 AM...My horses were running around- sounded like a stampede...They are really frisky in this cold weather we are having....I've been out there several times last 3 hours trying to calm them down...They been fighting and bouncing off the fencing all night...My pony is all scarred up from being kicked and bitten....He won't let me get close...The big appalossa has him freaked.....If this keeps up, the app will have to go....I can't have that little pony hurt-he is so sweet and holds real promise.

...Just venting.

A real good friend of mine breeds horses... her mare just foaled... cutest damned little horse I've ever seen... only 'bout 1 week old.  Sure hope things start calming down there for ya, Keith .. and warming up.  

According to the calendar.. its Spring... just wish the weather would cooperate ... Can't wait for some milder weather myself.  

Got any pics of your pony???  LOVE horses!!!

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