Backyard Aquaponics
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Sorry Bullwinkle.

why don't you try to fertilize the eggs Bullwinkle?

the eggs harden after being in the water for a short amount of time..unless they're fertilized almost immediately, they're not viable

Did you read the bit about keeping it family friendly?

And what makes you think I didn't try?

Our aunty Dulcie died this week.

She was a major player in my young life and in the life of many of our young friends.

I cant remember who it was, but some kids that were friends of the family on an overseas trip bumped into her in Italy or somewhere, and much to their parents surprise said "Aunty Dulcie!".

She had no kids but had infinite time for them.

Aunty Dulcie was that aunty that would rally all the kids and take them all to the park.

She ran a switchboard for GoodYear tires, and as a result could multi task her conversations in what I suspect was magic based. It allowed for maintaining a conversation with the grown-ups at the table, and simultaneously with every kid within earshot that wanted any attention at all.

In short...

the perfect aunty and half sister to my mum.

So tonight we took mum to a little restaurant we discovered a few weeks ago. It's a Uyghur restaurant owned and run by a couple and their very bored 10yo kid. The kid sits in the dining room playing very loud games on his phone, the mum sits at your table telling you stories about China, and the husband cooks your food and drinks vodka. She's Muslim, and he seems a little closer to the Russian, more drinky side of the world.

The place isn't licensed but you can BYO as long as you keep it out of sight.

So you sit there pouring drinks under the table chatting to the owner and eating some of the best food ever, and then when you leave, there's no charge.

None.

They refuse our money no matter what we do.

We have no idea why.

They dont know anything about this being a wake as the subject never came up.

Mum takes an ice cream from the Uyghur supermarket freezer that fronts the place on the way out so I slip some cash into the freezer under the guise of deciding I wanted an ice cream then changing my mind, but I get busted by the kid.

So the owner is chasing us out into the car park waving my money at us trying to give it back. Mum left her walker at home and is using two walking sticks, so she's only moving at half pace and the owner is catching up fast.

We try to outrun her with general giggles all round, but mum's in front blocking the way and as result we eat for free after all, leaving a perfect wake.

Thanks aunt D

sounds like Aunty Dulcie was quite a woman.

Wish I had an aunty.

Condolences to you and your family on the loss of Aunty Dulcie, she sounds like a lovely woman. The type of person that touches the hearts and lives of everyone who has the privilege to call her family or a friend. And what a perfect wake.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Thanks

Does anyone know if stepping motors are efficient. The application would be a paddle paddle wheel, and I thought it might suit because there would no need to gear it down.

They lack the torque you'd need for a paddle wheel.

Without going huge and super expensive.

I miss my Aunty Dulcie and Uncle Jack. She made the best sponges and he grew the best berries.

Can't help with the stepping motors.

I was thinking of something like a Fisher & Paykel washing machine motor.

I want to move a stack of water along a canal full of yabbies.

I thought the entire point of steppers was their torque. That's why I thought Fisher & Paykel used them.

Oh well.

back to a drawing board.

I bet a Fisher & Paykel motor could push a paddle wheel quite well...

Hi Bullwinkle, Colum directed me to you as being 1 comfortable with the use of worm excrement in their system. i started to read ur thread, to find out more... then i went to the end of the thread and started working backwards - needless to say when i came upon this gem - i stopped!

Could you give me a sum up? (on using worm tea, not the entire thread! )

Aggghh! you don't want to stop.

If ever there was a thread where momentum was important this is it.

If you dont have enough momentum built up, you will never get over the rough bits