Tank birthday, 55+ years

[smitten with ocean life]

oh no!!

 

[Paul B]

Oh yeah. :anguished-face:

 

[smitten with ocean life]

youre as bad as me. soon after my back surgery i fell down some stairs.:confounded-face:
wish we were closer so that we could help you out!:crying-face:

 

[Paul B]

Thanks. Usually there are friends all around me. Until I need some surgery, or my wife falls and I can't pick her up. Lately she falls a lot and I am afraid of her breaking something.

She isn't heavy, I'm just older and had a lot of operations so my muscles aren't what they used to be. :anguished-face:

 

[Paul B]

Happy Veterans Day to all of our Vets. And welcome home. (yes, I know it's tomorrow) :D





And many years ago with my main squeeze. And she still is.

:D

 

[Rybren]

Happy Veterans' Day Paul. Thank you for your service.
Here in Canada, today is Remembrance Day - a day when we say thanks to those who paid the ultimate price. We wear a red poppy to mark our Remembrance. The poppy comes from a poem written by a Canadian military doctor during WWI.

In Flanders Fields​

By John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

 

[Paul B]

I had my free breakfast at I Hop this morning. Veterans Day is the only time we eat there.
That is my Stateside shirt. I got it when I was 19 and it still fits. :)

 

[Nano_Man]

Ok

I had my free breakfast at I Hop this morning. Veterans Day is the only time we eat there.
That is my Stateside shirt. I got it when I was 19 and it still fits. :)

Have a great day Paul

 

[vlangel]

Thank you Paul for your service to our country! It looks like a good breakfast!

 

[Lowell Lemon]

I had my free breakfast at I Hop this morning. Veterans Day is the only time we eat there.
That is my Stateside shirt. I got it when I was 19 and it still fits. :)

Still eating like a 19 year old...where do you put all that food hahaha!

 

[ReefwithMee]

Cheers to many more!

 

[Paul B]

I couldn't finish all that breakfast. If I ate that every day I would be 500 lbs. :anguished-face:

 

[Paul B]

I seem to have lost my bristle worms. I have not seen one in a couple of months and I usually see them when the lights are off. Also my decorator crab, arrow crab, coral banded shrimp and harlequin shrimp molted and didn't get eaten. I still have all of them and when I had a tank full of big bristle worms, they would have been eaten as soon as they molted.

I have no idea why they are gone and never heard of those worms leaving.

 

[Lowell Lemon]

I love living in a more rural area. No matter what is going on nationally our three towns come together for what is important and puts it on the front page! Thanks Veterans!

 

[Paul B]

I also went to an event here at Calverton National Cemetary which is the largest Veteran Cemetery in the US.

Very nice. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

 

[Paul B]

I have a thought on the bristle worms. I do have a 6 line wrasse, an arrow crab, decorator crab and coral banded fish but I always had those or similar creatures so I doubt they ate the worms.

I am not sure what killed them but it could have been the toxins from the sponge that I removed. I know it killed all my SPS corals. When I cut the sponge, it exuded a thick white substance that may have killed them.

 

[Paul B]

I published another book not about fish or anything to do with this hobby. It's about my time in Vietnam. I didn't decide yet if I will donate the proceeds to the Wounded Warrior project or Tunnels to Towers.

Maybe I will split it, not that it will make much but whatever it does. I don't think it will replace bibles in hotels or anything like that. I just felt like writing and I don't think they teach about the conditions for us soldiers in Vietnam. :)

 

[Imrahilwjz]

Ordered a copy

 

[Paul B]

Ordered a copy

Already! Thank you. I didn't even get a copy yet. I do know from reading through the manuscript that there are two pictures left out. I don't know how that happened but I will try to see if I can get those pictures in there. :)

I think I'm going to do with this book is the same I did for my fish book. I wait until the end of the year when they send a tax form telling me how much, if anything the book made, then I will donate that to Wounded Warriors. It's hard to tell from Amazon's site how much it makes.

 

[Paul B]

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