The Coffee House

[davidharmier60]

My, but the Hawker Sea Fury is an AWESOME plane!
(Thanks to YouTube!)

 

[SquarePeg]

I may or may not have had my second piece of fried dough in 2 days... Beach therapy photo from earlier:

 

[smoke665]

Yeah we have rain at last. It was really getting dry here. Being on a community water supply it's way to expensive water yard or shrubs.

 

[Gary A.]

Mary Lou and Gary are at The Segerstrom Center for the Arts waiting for School of Rock to begin. The Segerstrom is in Orange County, about the same distance from Gary’s home as Hollywood (roughly 20 miles). But, man ... it is a much much easier drive to Segerstrom than to the theatres in Los Angeles. Few bottlenecks and HOV lanes allowed Gary to blow through the freeways.

 

[RowdyRay]

@waday. Not sure if the others responded. I have a Maxxum 7000. Picked it up from a thrift store. Have NO idea if it works. Planned to give the lens to my nephew that got the Sony A200. Think he lost interest already. You can probably have that too. Just PM me.

 

[snowbear137 68]

Here is the mount for the SRT101.

 

[pixmedic17]

HA! i knew it!

Grammar Purity is One Big Ponzi Scheme

 

[Gary A.]

HA! i knew it!

Grammar Purity is One Big Ponzi Scheme

LOL ... but the author is fundamentally wrong, (in a gray context way). There are grammar police, the code books used are called stylebooks. Most journalists use the AP Stylebook. (Granted "style" is, in most judicial court systems, different than "laws and rules" written in stone. But for journalists and other professional writers and some students/classes, a stylebook is the law.)

AP Stylebook

 

[davidharmier60]

Chicken Tenders, gravy and home fries.
Good morning (for 15 more minutes anyway). I may or may not have mentioned that the freezer got unplugged and a lot of food got ruined. Today's check will replace some of it. Have to take Sister shopping because my truck has current registration.
And that's the news.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

 

[waday]

Updates here and there
Multiple methods from Dave
Haiku and Coffee

 

[Gary A.]

iPhone

The pond looks quite nice.
A Lilly has sprouted white.
The fish are happy.

 

[tirediron]

Chicken Tenders, gravy and home fries.

Are chicken toughs an equally popular menu item?

 

[SquarePeg]

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iPhone

The pond looks quite nice.
A Lilly has sprouted white.
The fish are happy.

Do you find that the pond attracts a lot of insects? There are so many mosquitoes around here in summer that I can’t imagine having any water around. Even with my seeming immunity to bug bites, at my favorite gardens I avoid the lily ponds in summer.

 

[Gary A.]

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iPhone

The pond looks quite nice.
A Lilly has sprouted white.
The fish are happy.

Do you find that the pond attracts a lot of insects? There are so many mosquitoes around here in summer that I can’t imagine having any water around. Even with my seeming immunity to bug bites, at my favorite gardens I avoid the lily ponds in summer.

Yes, the water attracts insects, Dragonflies are Gary's favorite.

In particular to mosquitos, the Mosquito Life Cycle:
1) Mosquitos require standing water to propagate/breed. Mosquitos lay eggs in standing water.
2) The hatchlings are larva which live entirely in water feeding on whatever small stuff they can manage eat.
3) After larva, mosquitos transform into a non-eating pupa. The pupa will molt multiple times eventually changing into the flying, blood sucking insect, we all know and love.
4) The winged mosquito crawls out of the water for the first time in the mosquito's life. Dries off and flies into the sunset looking for some blood and a mate in order to start the cycle again.

Gary hasn't any standing water. The pond and Gary's two water fountains, circulates the water via-a-vis pumps. The pumping action destroys the mosquitos while they are water bound eggs, larvae and pupae . The pumps are more than sufficient to interrupt the mosquito life cycle. But, and in addition to the pumps, Gary has Mosquito Fish in the pond and the larger water fountain. These fish are dark gray and small, little more than an inch long. They take care of mosquitos and control other small water creatures and provide a food stock for several species of birds, even an entertain Green Heron the stalks the Mosquito Fish from the banks of the pond. Finally, Gary has ceiling fans in the patio. Mosquitos can barely fly. The wind generated by the ceiling fans are sufficient to keep most mosquitos and flies out of the patio.

 

[waday]

the flying insect we know and love.

LOL