Backyard Aquaponics
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I cant even tell what it is, but I've never wanted something so bad.

You are so good at making me laugh, BW! I put a link in the text, but I'm not sure you should click on it.

Today I'm going to go see if the pump I want is available in the store. And then I'm going to buy some PVC. And THEN I'm going to open the box and take a look at my new toy.

I did actually click on the link

It looks like a very useful tool, and much less dangerous than my version.

A have one of those little benches that's slit down the middle and has two cranks that turn the entire bench into a vice. I just gently squeeze my jig saw in that, upside down. Then I have a band saw.

But you need so much safety gear you can no longer move freely.

And it only cuts squiggly lines. Even when you are trying to cut a straight one.

So really it only works for making jigsaw puzzles. (really...."jig saw" puzzles...is that really where that word came from)

I draw the line at mounting the circular saw that way.

That would just be a death sentence


Hmmmm chain saw puzzles?

Well, I have a pump...and a stack of PVC pipe, and fittings. Got home just in time for my Gbaby babysitting gig, though, so I don't get to play until Monday, since I'm scheduled to work this weekend. 12-hour solo shifts don't leave time or energy for home projects.

PVC pipe looks a lot bigger IRL than in my head. It feels like I planned everything too big. But I stuck with the plan. We'll see what happens.

Oh man that makes my blood boil. The farmer's got land and he/she's got horses. What snot-nosed little local government dipsh*t with half an inch of power to flex would reject his/her application to build a shelter for the horses. Grrrr! So nice to see ingenuity overcome stupidity. Yay!

I've been thinking about pot holes.

Since I've been digging holes in my greenhouse, I know from personal experience that a one cubic foot hole holds approximately 6 cubic feet of dirt.

But you never see piles of dirt around pot holes. One day there's flat road, and the next day there's flat road with a giant hole in it. Where does what was IN them go? How is it that pot holes manage to circumvent Newton's Laws?

This could be important. We should be paying attention to this.

If Mrs. Bullwinkle likes having you around, perhaps she would be willing to buy you one, when her pavement-space endeavor takes off. It wouldn't hurt to ask.

Or you could wait until Nov 15, 2013, and just order one.

One in Germany, apparently. I saw it on a news site yesterday. Same table and chairs, but different horses. (The ones in the news photo looked like draft horses.)

So, how tall are you, Tallman? Just curious, since I'm a bit above average height myself.

197cm, just under 6'5"
Not freakish, but tall enough to spend a lot of time banging my head on things and clearing away spider webs with my face.
You?

6'2" (188 cm). Kinda freakish, I guess, for a girl.

The dirt from the potholes is what fills up the culverts.

and your wheel arches...

Wheel arches... Another difference in languages. Feet have arches, wheels sit inside wheel wells here. At least that is about the only thing that I can think of that would be an arch associated with wheels. If I am correct tell me, because it might be fun to throw people off here with that one...

You are correct.

The arch that the wheel sits under

"Arch" actually makes more sense, if you think about it. Wells should bow downward, not upward. But if wheels sat in wells that were oriented correctly, cars wouldn't be able to go anywhere. Whereas arches go up and over, in exactly the way that wheel wells should.

Why is everybody else always so much more sensible than we Americans? *sigh*