[onlooker]

Well,this is good news in terms of mitigation to a big environmental problem
https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/just ... an-plastic

[Newfie]

Good to hear it. I got my first ever flu shot this year. But we are now in Bahamas, hopefully the flu does t live here.

[Ibon]

We were voted one of the top 5 eco lodges in Panama... First one listed!

https://ecocircuitospanama.wordpress.co ... in-panama/

[Newfie]

Woo Hoo!!!!!!

Way to go.

[Newfie]

It’s a good day to be from Philadelphia.

We are in Luperon, Dominican Republic and watched the Super Bowl with a bunch of new found friends at a nice open air restaurant then walked down the dock to our home.

77°F, pleasant sleeping weather.

Life is good.

[Cog]

I do not think you would want to be in Philadelphia tonight.

[rockdoc123]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') do not think you would want to be in Philadelphia tonight.

[Newfie]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'I') do not think you would want to be in Philadelphia tonight.

[Newfie]

I often note how few butterflies we see anymore.

It yesterday there seems to be an emergence of these little pale yellow ones.

Today we were going along the SE coast of PR, a couple of miles off shore. For much of the time up we had one to a dozen of these butterflies with us. Fluttering around in wild dog fights. Go figure.

Very nice.

[Shaved Monkey]

We had a lepidopterist come to town a few years back to study the local butterflies,we have an area called Butterfly cove were they seem to be born in the cottonwood trees.
They then fly on mass to somewhere to breed
This is an ocean of blue butterflys that goes on and on for days.
Its an incredible sight.
They obviously then lay eggs and fly out into the great barrier reef to die.
The Spanish mackerel feast on dead butterflies this signals the start of the season,

[Ibon]

Jaguar video taken from our game camera in our backyard up on the top of Mount Totumas at 2630m.

http://blog.mounttotumas.com/?p=3076

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '
')But why the need to exaggerate the status of the species.

[Newfie]

Ibon,
Thanks for digging up this thread. I needed someplace to put this. After our cabin renovations my Wife wanted a sofa/beet/settee for the living room. She had this idea, sort of a big head board/back rest and the bed pushes in part way so you sit on it during the day but pull it out to sleep on.

No too bad for a circular saw and some hand tools.

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[Pops]

Very cool.

our current project is rehabing the basement for our granddaughter to live in while going to college. Her folks are being transferred to Fairbanks (Army) and she ain't going for it (boyfriend).

It's about 1,000 sf +/- with a laundry, "rumpus room", bedroom, kitchenette/bar, bath. Here's a corner before/after:




We've got it to stay mostly dry but the floor will still only be painted

[Tanada]

She is a lucky lady Pops, I would have committed mayhem for a place half that nice while I was in college!

[Pops]

Thanks T, it's bigger than the first house we owned when her mom was little!

[Newfie]

What’s that robot looking thing for? Dry wall?

[Pops]

I wish I had a drywall robot!

LOL, it's a screen printer. My daughter and I were playing with etsy for a while.
The silver things sticking up hold up to 6 screens for 6 different colors, the green horizontal thing holds 2 items to be printed (a sign or shirt or whatever). you stand at one end and apply one ink, spin the carousel to apply the next color etc. either between or after all the ink is on you spin the green thing around to heat set the ink while printing another.

[Newfie]

We just spent 3 days out in the bay hacking around. Had some wonderful sailing, it was fun with no particular place to go. We saw one other sailboat the entire trip. Today the weather was a bit challanging, not bad sailing but the last few hours were rain and rolly. Still it was similar to a passage we made a few years ago when my Wife went comatose with sea sickness. Today she just sat in the cockpit with me and told me I was a pervert for enjoying myself so much. What a huge change. Made me even happier. But I guess she’s got a point, not a lot of folks enjoy standing in 55°F wind and rain on a rolly boat for a few hours. But I had a ball! Puffins and muirs and sea gulls. Great sailing, clean air, no other people. What’s not to love?

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', ' ') But I had a ball! Puffins and muirs and sea gulls. Great sailing, clean air, no other people. What’s not to love?