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contaminates…

11 Thursday Sep 2025

Posted by sulis303 in life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather

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big girl pants, blessed, contaminants, fish, fish tanks, goldfish, koi, moments, pond, project, pumps, water, weather, widow

finally got around to filling the fish tanks yesterday…

the process took over an hour, as each tank had to be filled and then the pump was cleaned, plugged in and turned on…

I was pleased as after each pump was cleaned, it started up without any issues…

now the pumps will run for three or four weeks before any fish come inside, to be sure that the water has no chlorine or other contaminants in it…

happy this piece of work is done and I don’t have to think about the fish coming inside until much later;-)… woohoo…

trickery…

08 Saturday Feb 2025

Posted by sulis303 in life, loss, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, blessed, books, cleaning, fish tanks, fixed, happy, moments, oopsie, plants, pumps, trickery, widow

had an oopsie yesterday as I was in the process of cleaning out two of the pumps…

the pothos that sits on the shelf above the tanks had gotten really full and long, so I decided to trim it, sigh…

apparently I should have measured, lol…

the reason the plant is there is to cover up the space between two of the tanks where the pump fits…

so, once the pumps were cleaned up, a little bit of trickery took place…

I found a vase and filled it with the cut off pieces of the plant trying to have as many as possible high inside the vase…

it was still obvious that there was a space, so I added three paperback books that I had already read and put the vase back….

can’t even tell now… and once all the cuttings take root, I will pot them up and add them to the indoor garden, whew;-)…

evaporating…

11 Sunday Feb 2024

Posted by sulis303 in health, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized, weather

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big girl pants, blessed, evaporating, fish tanks, house, humidity, moments, nature, pumps, water, widow

spent some time topping up all three fish tanks…

the water is evaporating at a fast rate…

it seems like only a week ago that I had added a bit of water to each of them…

I guess the good news is that the humidity level in the house is good, lol… and the pumps are much quieter the higher the water level;-)…

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