This is an Unhosted Cafe.
Self-serve food and drinks.
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Lewd, rude, and crude — that’s how we grow ’em around here.
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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May the 4’s be with you
24/7 Cafe Closed. Coffee Cart Rolling
A new clean cafe and plenty to drink. Come on in.
Hi FM
Hi Mary. How are you tonight?
Tired. And I see corporate lawyers are being stereotyped here again tonight in other threads.
I was going to visit for a while. But I don’t have it in me tonight. See ya.
I haven’t been out of the cafe much tonight, and I hate to hear about the sterotyping. I always hate to hear about any type of sterotyping.
You get some sleep and come back fighting tommorow.
Have a good night Mary and see ya.
Good I’m glad you made it to the new cafe. I was saying in the old cafe that I really like that. You could do Slack Eddie as different characters.
Slack Eddie, ala Walter Mitty. Only rather than fantasies, we would have to depict what Eddie dreams about, during all that sleeping.
The “hook” would be to draw Eddie sleeping and then transform that pose into an action drawing.
To bad I’m too lazy to do all of that. 😉
keres I think you’re onto something. I see a children’s book in the making and you becomming more famous than J.K.Rowling.
I think I’ll call it a night.
Everyone have a good night in the pond.
No No don’t go yet. I’m just getting here and I was reading up on the last cafe about a drawing of Slack Eddie.
Keres, are you still here?
I think your drawing is a great start. How about a little less jowl and a slightly longer nose and the front legs kind of curled and tucked across his chest? I was going to try to draw it, but it’s not coming fast.
Here`s a treat from this morning. This little hummingbird, named “Iris” because of it`s iridescence answers to my wife`s strange whistle, & [according to her] the smell of pot. She`ll whistle her down & Iris allows me to take as many pix as I want to. My wife rescued this bird a few years ago, & it lived in the house for over a month till it was able to leave & survive on it`s own.
Us westerners have to stick together…late hours.
This is a beautiful shot. How lovely to have a little friend like Iris come around to visit.
Ya that`s true. Iris was a little girl we were all proud of when she lived in the house. She would fly up to me & land on my mustache, then poke me up the nostril. She would also jump into one of my freshwater breeding tanks & scoot around on her behind with her little motor wings beating .
We`d look all over the place for her, then find her sitting next to one of the parrots 100 times her size as if she was trying to disguise herself to prevent her being found. No one had taught her the concept of size , I guess. Here`s a pink flower for you, as an up late westerner. It`s a clone I created a month age & is doing very well. It`s a “Rose Bubble Tip Anemone.
Holey Moley!! That is amazing! How do you clone an anemone? How many tanks do you have anyway? Is this your profession or hobby. Totally awesom..
Thanks for sending this flower in particular.
I`m just a hobbyist interested in educating anyone who`ll listen, that our oceans are the most important part of the planet.
I do not advocate ever taking an anemone or a clownfish out of their natural element. In lieu of that, aquaculture of as many species as possible, [& advances in this kind of husbandry is gaining by leaps & bounds] helps to preserve the wild species. If you take an anemone out of the wild, it`s comensurate clownfish will die as a result of predation, not having the protection of the anemone. If you take away the clownfish, the same happens. Not only that,but wherever you have a clownfish/anemone symbiosis, you have a whole little ecosphere that grows around it with shrimp, crabs, corals, worms & whatever. These micro pyramidal ecospheres are doomed if you remove the top of the pyramid; the anemone or the clownfish. Cloning happens naturally in most cases through fission like in sea cucumbers, but basically they split into two anemones. Then they split again & so on. If you cut one carefully, you will get two. If you try & remove one for any reason it may tear & you have two.
Right now I have four active tanks, all reefs. I shut down two other tanks I had to convert one to a reef, which I`m presently working on & another tank I`m building specifically for a certain type of corals called SPS, which means Small Polyped Stoney corals of which there are hundreds.
Here`s a clone from about four months ago. Notice at the base of the foot, some weird bug with pincers.
I also put a pic in last nights comments to show you a bit of scale in one of my tanks. The rose flower is from another tank & this large one is from yet another tank.
Thank you, K. How wonderful you’re trying to spread the word. I think you should do a diary for BT. It’s political connection would be that we are destroying our oceans and therefore destroying ourselves. We are largely uneducated. You can educate us. I was totally unaware of the symbiosis of anemone and clown fish and then with the corals. The sum total of what I know is what you’ve said in these last few comments we’ve shared…late at night when no one else is looking. What a shame.
You could do your own FotoDiary with bits of educational info with each.
I think this would be of tremendous value.
This is one of my clones from 6 months ago, with a tomato clown in it. The black spines in the foreground are on a long spined urchin. This is from my tank just a couple of feet behind me . I can swivel my office chair around & I`m face to face with this incredible space.
What a lovely world you live in. Please keep posting.
We all live in the same world, & lovely it is. This pic is of the beauty hidden inside the shell of a snail. Most people only get to see a shell moving slowly along , but never see it as part of the “lovely” world.
It`s taken as the snail glides effortlessly on the glass side of the tank.
I must also “Thank You” for your kind words.
Exquisite! Thank you!
This is a very rough sketch to illustrate my comment above. Keres does this present any ideas for you to work with?
It’s not a bad sketch, it’s just not how wombats sleep. They really do sleep with their legs completely akimbo.
Wow….all four legs akimbo. Now that is trust. LOL
The dog, who also sleeps all four legs akimbo, is demanding that I walk her.
See you all on the flip side.
Ah Ha! Turn a photo of Luna asleep into a line drawing and then morph her into having short grey hair, little stand-up ears and a pert little mouth. Do wombats have tails?