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Early this morning I went for a walk on the beach behind my house. It was dead low tide so perfect for amphipod hunting.
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Of course I didn't realize it was going to be low tide so I didn't bring anything to hold amphipods in and I hate to put them in my shorts. They wiggle to much. :oops:

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I walked and walked and couldn't find one thing to collect pods in. Eventually I came across 2 plastic bottles. Of course the opening is to small because I normally lift an algae covered rock which are covered in amphipods and swish them in a bucket of salt water but I didn't bring one.

I needed to cut one of the bottles in half to make a scoop and all I had was the beach key. I used that and after a while and just before I cut my hand off trying to do this I made a hole in the bottle. I was able to rip the bottle in half pretty straight.



That bottle I used for a scoop so when I lifted a small rock, the depression was full of amphipods that scurry out of sight in about 3 seconds so I have to be fast. I lift the rock and immediately stick in the "scoop" and collect maybe a dozen amphipods under each rock out of the dozens of them there.
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Then I dump that into the whole bottle. When the bottle gets full of water I let it settle so the pods go to the bottom and I add more water laden amphipods. I have been doing this all my life and I am a little smarter than the creatures so I came away with a couple of hundred pods.

They are now in my tank intermingling with the ones I collected last week, except of course for the slow ones which are fish food.
 

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Not a good morning I am afraid. Last night was a bad night. Yesterday the neighbors and us noticed that no one has seen our next door neighbor in a couple of days and she was always out walking her little rescue dog, Angus.

The dog was in the house barking and the car was in the garage. She didn't answer her phone all day and by looking in the windows, we couldn't see her.

I even climbed onto her raised back porch and looked under the blinds.
We called the police but she wasn't missing long enough for them to break in, but they came and tried to locate her. I slid a card in the door and opened the latch but the deadbolt was on so we broke the window on the front door.

Our fears came true and we found her dead. She was about 60. We will miss her.
We located her sister on Facebook and she was called.
 

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Not a good morning I am afraid. Last night was a bad night. Yesterday the neighbors and us noticed that no one has seen our next door neighbor in a couple of days and she was always out walking her little rescue dog, Angus.

The dog was in the house barking and the car was in the garage. She didn't answer her phone all day and by looking in the windows, we couldn't see her.

I even climbed onto her raised back porch and looked under the blinds.
We called the police but she wasn't missing long enough for them to break in, but they came and tried to locate her. I slid a card in the door and opened the latch but the deadbolt was on so we broke the window on the front door.

Our fears came true and we found her dead. She was about 60. We will miss her.
We located her sister on Facebook and she was called.
That is so sad. Sorry for your loss. :crying-face:
 

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Morning. We had a sad day yesterday. There was a mass shooting on the south side of Indy at the Greenwood Mall. Not much details yet but 4 dead and two injured. One of the dead is the gunman. A 22 year old Good Samaritan had a handgun on him and shot and killed the shooter. It could of been much worse if not for this young man’s heroics.
 

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Good afternoon
Jill,Mia and I are here at Duck N
The rest didn’t make it. Kirk has a roaring Covid den at his house. Jeanna had a temp of 103. A no d of course they didn’t tell us when we stopped to drop off the car.

so
Grant and his family are staying away
they just had it

We are fine

If having it before doesn’t prevent it
And the shots don’t prevent it
Then what can you do

be a hermit?
Live in fear the rest of your life?

sorry not us
 

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