Validating, that is in the
sense of being able to inform and correct, not in a mean way but when even our
trusted well researched journalists/anchors make a little boo boo with their
info in others telling them discreetly that they did.
Last night on our local
affiliate station of NBC-2 out of Fort Myers Florida had an item on mosquito
eater fish, known by this name Gambusia affinis : for more info goto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquitofish
Although they credited Sarasota County’s extension for informing them of
this natural way of mosquito control in your own backyard pond, and it was
herald as presumably a new concept I took issue.
So I contacted one of the
co-anchors that I knew a tiny bit from Facebook contact and messaged her,
Kellie Burns.
She was quite receptive to my
information about the fish being available in Charlotte County
for over a decade, since we personally have had them since before Hurricane
Charley when we first put our pond in back in 2003.
At that time it was a
fiberglass free form pond purchased at Home Depot, and our fish were from the
pet shop, actually feeder goldfish for reptiles, but my cousin said they would
grow very large in an outdoor pool and assimilate quite well, and so they did!
Many of ours lived for
several years and grew to one to two feet long, yep goldfish!
And so when the hurricane
happened and our giant oak tree fell over them and basically protected them
when all was said and done Hubby gave them a much larger habitat of eleven
hundred gallons and of course we needed more mosquito eaters and again they
were delivered for free!
So being told this little
saga Kellie admitted that she did not know this and asked if a reporter could
call me and he did, Tim Wronka a new young fellow who was taking over Chris
Gilmore’s Port Charlotte beat, but they both came with cameras to interview
Hubby at our pond, a less than two minute segment, perhaps a minute, but Hubby
had been interviewed many times before as I had. Him when he was in community
policing and as a marine patrol officer and me when in volunteer work and promotion.
But I let him take this onair one since being so fat these days and with my walker for my MS and all I am
too self conscience; I know silly!
My issue is that I do not
approve of me as is these days and I do not need to hear others comments of
perhaps others thinking out loud or under their breaths of my own fears realized.
So Hubby did a fine job and
now all of Charlotte County the new people as well as some of the older ones
are aware that these tiny fish can help keep the mosquito population down during
this up coming rainy season in their own fountains and ponds and beyond!
Moving on…
Another pool day, but not as
long, about forty-five minutes, since the fellows were coming around noon for
the interview and I wanted to be all showered and dressed way before then and I
made it!
On that note of it’s usually
the how you tell it that has to be dealt with, and I suppose this time I was
not too harsh so it was accepted and investigated further. Any-who, allow me to
be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you
to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know
whom and we will too!
And next time please be here
or be square, ya hear!