VIDEO VIEWING SUGGESTION – Likely due to all the experimenting I was doing with options  – the file takes a while to load.  I suggest starting the video, pausing it, then coming back to read this drivel which will allow sufficient “buffering time”.  (That’s what it is called right?  While the file information is accumulated for playing without constant interruption by the “spinning icon”?)  At least that process works here – I don’t know about “OUT THERE IN THE REAL WORLD” with other computers.    lol.

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Well, what can I say? This is my first true “AUDIO MIX” (other than the audio channels with the video editing program).

I know why it took so long to notice the new  fry in the pond…..they are extremely skiddish – and for good reason.   Their two parents are all that’s left of the original 101 community!  That’s right, we counted them during a pond cleaning inventory years ago.  [Lined them all up and took left to right-center photographs, measurements of height, weight, water displacement, color, distinguishing marks, started a known associates file……..]  ahh, ok, kidding about the “fish booking process” but we did remove all the fish for a good pond scrubbing.

Use an ultraviolet light now which really reduces the algae and water murkiness. But something sure got to them a few years ago.  Only took a few days.  Figured a bird since there was not one scrap, fin, bone, scale or anything left behind.  No prints in the soil.  Nothing.   Some crane or egret probably saw the pond, swooped down and stood in the middle of the pond and started scooping and eating away.  Darn.   Since then I’ve covered the pond with chicken wire and put up a shade screen cover overhead to obscure the pond from aerial surveillance of potential predators.

Every time I feed the two survivors I have tapped a three part signal on the pond to let them know food has arrived – they have finally started responding to the “code” and come out of hiding.  (They hide out in some 4″ diameter PVC pipe at the bottom of the pond.  Probably the reason they survived the attack years ago. Yup, extremely skiddish whereas before they didn’t mind observers watching them.  Sure learned from that horrible mistake.)

The other day while feeding them and tapping on the pond I observed a bunch of small fry swimming out of the pipes!     Absolutely wild.  I’ve always looked but this is the first time seeing them.  (Apparently at least two productions judging by the different sizes.)  Feel like I should be handing out little “fish stick” cigars or something.  lol  Need to get some more fish food at Wally World (of course don’t want to change anything too much right now because the environment is apparently working quite well.)

Anyway, thought I’d throw my audio creation-abomination in the mix with some poor video of the recently discovered fry.  The ultraviolet  algae sterilization fountain makes photography quite difficult with all the rippling of the water, but like my audio mix, why throw them away?  There’s always some use.

Yup, this audio track manipulation is pretty neat but I still accidentally wipe stuff out now and then and don’t know what I did wrong.  I have a number of ideas I’d like to try with this audio editing — poor viewers never get a break from my playing around with this stuff, do you?  Lol  Later!  Lew