Friday, April 17, 2015

On occasion speaking my mind has been...



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!

 

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