Old School In Az

[BettaDollar]

Hello from too sunny AZ
I'm new to the forum but not to fish keeping.
I've been addicted for years and can't imagine I'll ever kick the habit.
I've bred betta's, angel fish, platys and other fish too but have no interest in breeding any longer.
I recently considered giving up fish keeping because I get so attached to my fish and I was feeling bad about keeping them captive.
Figured I'd miss them too much if I gave them up and would probably worry about them all the time if I did.
So...
Looking forward to getting to know fellow members, learning and helping when I can.
Sincerely, BD

 

[Mongo75]

Well, let me be the first (unless someone else types faster than me) to welcome you to our community

 

[BettaDollar]

Thanks Mongo, I'm no ball o' fire on a keyboard either.

 

[LDan]

Hi! Welcome BettaDollar This is a great place to hang out with fellow fish lovers!

 

[WTFish?]

Welcome to fishlore from a fellow Arizonan!

 

[BettaDollar]

Thanks LDan, it's a great site & I'm glad I stumbled on it.

Hello WTFish?
It's a great site - very active forums and really interesting ones too.
Ready for some cooler weather? Can I ask what part of AZ are you in?

 

[WTFish?]

Hello WTFish?
It's a great site - very active forums and really interesting ones too.
Ready for some cooler weather? Can I ask what part of AZ are you in?

HI I’m in Pinetop, already getting cooler, woke up to 41* this morning!!! Love it. And you?

 

[BettaDollar]

HI I’m in Pinetop, already getting cooler, woke up to 41* this morning!!! Love it. And you?

PINETOP!?!
Lucky you - you don't have to worry about getting into heaven... you're already there!
My wife & I & 4 shelter dogs live in a retirement community in the northwest part of the valley. Sun City. (Known as "Gods waiting room") (I think because of the terrible drivers!)
It dropped to 70 early this morning. It's 11am & 102 now.
Fall's commin'. It's just taking it's sweet ol' time getting here.

 

[WTFish?]

PINETOP!?!
Lucky you - you don't have to worry about getting into heaven... you're already there!
My wife & I & 4 shelter dogs live in a retirement community in the northwest part of the valley. Sun City. (Known as "Gods waiting room") (I think because of the terrible drivers!)
It dropped to 70 early this morning. It's 11am & 102 now.
Fall's commin'. It's just taking it's sweet ol' time getting here.

The weather is great but the lack of good food and activities gets old. Lol. We vow to never go to the valley except in the winter (my son lives in Buckeye) I know where Sun city is, cool. A lot of our winter crowds (the snowbirds) are heading back down to you now! You’re right...horrible drivers! Haha. 102!!! No thank you!!
Momgoose56 is from Tucson area I believe. I know there’s more but I can’t recall...

 

[BettaDollar]

The weather is great but the lack of good food and activities gets old. Lol. We vow to never go to the valley except in the winter (my son lives in Buckeye) I know where Sun city is, cool. A lot of our winter crowds (the snowbirds) are heading back down to you now! You’re right...horrible drivers! Haha. 102!!! No thank you!!
Momgoose56 is from Tucson area I believe. I know there’s more but I can’t recall...

Yep. Snowbirds are flocking back. Lack of good food? No burger kings? I'd leave.
You like angel fish? Want some? Gotta friend that breeds them & probably would like to relocate one or more. Let me know - next time you visit your son we could hook up somewhere & get them to you.
Great talking with ya. Ciao, BD

 

[Momgoose56]

The weather is great but the lack of good food and activities gets old. Lol. We vow to never go to the valley except in the winter (my son lives in Buckeye) I know where Sun city is, cool. A lot of our winter crowds (the snowbirds) are heading back down to you now! You’re right...horrible drivers! Haha. 102!!! No thank you!!
Momgoose56 is from Tucson area I believe. I know there’s more but I can’t recall...

96.3° here in far NE Tucson at 11:20. Got down to 63° last night- fall is slowly falling!

 

[WTFish?]

Yep. Snowbirds are flocking back. Lack of good food? No burger kings? I'd leave.
You like angel fish? Want some? Gotta friend that breeds them & probably would like to relocate one or more. Let me know - next time you visit your son we could hook up somewhere & get them to you.
Great talking with ya. Ciao, BD

We do have Burger King. Lol. I want seafood! And thanks, but no room for more fishies, I appreciate it though!!

 

[BettaDollar]

The shorter days makes a big difference.
I can smell fall in the air every morning now and I get a I get a terrible hankering for blueberry pancakes.
We came here from New England in 2004 and fall is flannel shirts and pancake time back there.

 

[Momgoose56]

The shorter days makes a big difference.
I can smell fall in the air every morning now and I get a I get a terrible hankering for blueberry pancakes.
We came here from New England in 2004 and fall is flannel shirts and pancake time back there.

Maple Syrup! I just like the plain old buttermilk pancakes meself-- and crispy maple smoked thick cut bacon...

 

[WTFish?]

The shorter days makes a big difference.
I can smell fall in the air every morning now and I get a I get a terrible hankering for blueberry pancakes.
We came here from New England in 2004 and fall is flannel shirts and pancake time back there.

And here I am wishing I could move to New England lol. Mmmm pancakes!

 

[BettaDollar]

And here I am wishing I could move to New England lol. Mmmm pancakes!

Seriously? If you are... got a particular place you'd like to go to?
You got me thinkin' about seafood now & I'm drooling like a fool!

 

[BettaDollar]

Maple Syrup! I just like the plain old buttermilk pancakes meself-- and crispy maple smoked thick cut bacon...

You sound like you may have been there. Yes?
I've been to a couple maple syrup farms and I tell ya - there's no finer aroma. (Imagine if I worked at 1 I'd feel different).
We're trying to grow hi-bush blueberry's & it's starting to look like it's been a fools folly.
You put blueberry's in your pancakes?

 

[Mongo75]

PINETOP!?!
Lucky you - you don't have to worry about getting into heaven... you're already there!
My wife & I & 4 shelter dogs live in a retirement community in the northwest part of the valley. Sun City. (Known as "Gods waiting room") (I think because of the terrible drivers!)
It dropped to 70 early this morning. It's 11am & 102 now.
Fall's commin'. It's just taking it's sweet ol' time getting here.

Beautiful country there. I was coming out of New Mexico on US 60 through your neck of the woods, then on down to Scottsdale and Phoenix, and really enjoyed the scenery.

96.3° here in far NE Tucson at 11:20. Got down to 63° last night- fall is slowly falling!

It's 97° now, 3PM, and last nights low was 60°. Yep, fall's just around the corner

Maple Syrup! I just like the plain old buttermilk pancakes meself-- and crispy maple smoked thick cut bacon...

When I was a kid growing up in Mississippi, we used to pick the wild blackberries and grandma would make blackberry syrup for our buttermilk pancakes, and preserves for our biscuits and PB&J. Ah, memories

And here, we call them Ski-idjits, not Snowbirds. A nonstop caravan heading from L.A. to Mammoth on Fridays and returning on Sundays. And every one got their driver license from a Cracker Jack box.

 

[BettaDollar]

Mmmm! Wild blackberries - the best!!!
Preserves, syrup, jelly? Your Grandma was a good woman!
In the Fall in Maine you'll see drunken bears in culverts & ditches eating fermenting berries. They're a riot to watch!
Ski-idgits? What? they skI in Mississippi?
Great chattin' with ya Momgoose

 

[Mongo75]

Mmmm! Wild blackberries - the best!!!
Preserves, syrup, jelly? Your Grandma was a good woman!
In the Fall in Maine you'll see drunken bears in culverts & ditches eating fermenting berries. They're a riot to watch!
Ski-idgits? What? they skI in Mississippi?
Great chattin' with ya Momgoose

No, no, no, lol. MississippI was when I was a kid. That was some 50 or so years ago. Now I'm in the Mojave Desert, about an hour north of downtown Los Angeles, and all the Ski-idjits (skI idiots) from the coastal side of the mountains flock to Mammoth Lakes skI resorts, and it looks like a caravan of non-stop skis on top of cars, or skI mobiles in tow, or both. It's a nightmare for those of us that have to drive in that garbage, just to get home in the evening

 

[Dennis57]

Welcome to Fishlore,

 

[BettaDollar]

O I C. (now...)
I'm on the dis-orient express. DOH!
Mongo, You're in the Mojave Desert?
And traveled thru AZ?
For some reason I thought Momgoose came from Mississippi.
Anyway, yes it's like another planet here.

 

[BettaDollar]

Welcome to Fishlore,

Thanks Dennis, it's great to be here

 

[Mongo75]

O I C. (now...)
I'm on the dis-orient express. DOH!
Mongo, You're in the Mojave Desert?
And traveled thru AZ?
For some reason I thought Momgoose came from Mississippi.
Anyway, yes it's like another planet here.

I was born in Mississippi, reared in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida until I was 11. Family moved to California when I was 11, and I've been here since with the exception of 3 years military.

I drove commercial for about 3.5 years, and that trip, made a delivery in Albuquerque. Picked up a Walmart load about an hour south of Albuquerque and took US 60 from I-25 to where it meets up with 260 in Arizona, then 87 down into Scottsdale. The mountains in your part were gorgeous, and then on 87, driving through the arroyos and pipe organ cactI was simply amazing. I've also made a few pickups off of 277 in the boondocks west of Snowflake. If I remember, it was a paper mill, but I'm not really sure.

 

[MaximumRide14]

Hey! This is like the Arizona thread haha. Welcome to Fishlore, and I hope it gets cooler here haha

 

[BettaDollar]

Hey! This is like the Arizona thread haha. Welcome to Fishlore, and I hope it gets cooler here haha

Hey Max, thanks and I've gone from "hoping" to praying!
We have a garden full of perpetually dormant plants !

 

[BettaDollar]

No, no, no, lol. MississippI was when I was a kid. That was some 50 or so years ago. Now I'm in the Mojave Desert, about an hour north of downtown Los Angeles, and all the Ski-idjits (skI idiots) from the coastal side of the mountains flock to Mammoth Lakes skI resorts, and it looks like a caravan of non-stop skis on top of cars, or skI mobiles in tow, or both. It's a nightmare for those of us that have to drive in that garbage, just to get home in the evening

I've always felt great empathy for anyone driving a commercial vehicle.
Long haul drivers seem the most patient.
Local drivers, not so patient but I don't hold that against them. I don't commute anymore but I know what it's like to be in an interstate parking lot ...