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bouaboua

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What's for lunch?
Pen fried fish fillet and soy sauce winter gourd.

This "winter gourd" is not very popular in Western food but show up often in Chinese and Japanese food. Here are few picture of this "gourd"

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This is at harvest.

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Cut opened
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Cut the thick skin off and in pieces......Ready to cook.

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I have a mercury vapor light over my side door. It is photo sensitive, it comes on at dusk and goes off at dawn. So last night I went out to turn off the water before going to bed and this is what was outside the door:

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Then on the side of the house:

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These are such cute little frogs. And that's as big as they get (about the size of a quarter). In the spring you see a few teeny tiny ones that have just grown out of the pollywog stage hopping around.

Speaking of frogs. . . we normally have so many baby toads on the ground in the spring that you have to watch where you place your feet as you're walking. This year I haven't see a single one. But I HAVE see a couple of baby bull frogs at the edge of the pond.
 

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I haven't saw any baby roads or frogs this year. I hear the frogs. I have saw a couple of toads.

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I've never paid any attention to all those symbols across the top of the post section, so I'm going to have a look at them now. First, the square next to the emoji symbol. Ah, that one will insert an image. I'll give it a try:

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Well, that was a bust.

The next one looks like it might be for a video?

That one's a bust too.

Then there's the plus sign:
I like the strike through feature. Never knew it was there.

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Aw geez. Here all this time I've been typing the [ quote ] and come to find out I can get it on the plus sign!
And I learned about the spoiler already. That's a nice feature too. You can make a button to click to open stuff like what I put in my signature.
 

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Oh. . . oh. . . oh . . . Looks like my video thingey up above worked after all, but the picture thingey didn't work.
 
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