Asian Swamp Eels

My 51st birthday was Monday, December 21. To celebrate, I went with my mother to her doctor's appointment at 9:45am, for her fasting blood sugar test, after which we hightailed it over to Perkins to load up on coffee and breakfast foods. I had sacrificially forgone breakfast so I could suffer the pangs of hunger and deprivation with my mother. That's just the kind of daughter I am. I did not skip my morning coffee, however. I ain't stupid. After Perkins, we hit PetsMart to stock up on cat treats, buy more toys for the poor neglected cats to play with - or rather, ... Read Full Story

Hello Again! Wow what a dinner we had at Roma Italian Restaurant in Lower Burrell PA.   This is a small little hole in the wall that we have drove by numberous times and never noticed.  The dining area is small and extra simple.  This is our second visit to this place, in as many weeks, thanks to Restaurant.com.  Last week we got appetizers and a Roma Special Pizza.  This pizza was HUGE but.............the ROMA special has anchovies (big YUCK) and we didn't know it.  The cat and the dog were happy with the white box that came home with us, but ICK ICK ICK ... Read Full Story

In May this year, hundreds of Asian swamp eels were discovered in and around Silver Lake in historic Gibbsboro, New Jersey. This was the first finding in New Jersey, Asian swamp eel but not the first finding in the United States. Unlike Florida, Georgia, and Hawaii – the three other U.S. states where this species have been discovered – New Jersey is however subjected to harsh winters and a breeding population of Asian swamp eels in New Jersey confirms the suspicion that this Asian invader has no problem adjusting to the chilly climate of northern North America . The Asian swamp eels were found ... Read Full Story

It’s official. I’m DONE with the online AND paper versions of the Vancouver Sun and The Province. Well, I never really read the Province because it reads like the Enquirer to me, but the Sun had me for Thursdays edition,as well as the weekend one. The online versions provided me with updated local news bits to blog about. However, the recent changes to the Suns paper edition are atrocious to say the least. Unreadable. And now, the online sites of both have been re-hashed into generic news sites that appear as if they could be from any city in Canada. Cluttered and erratic in ... Read Full Story

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