Getting ready to receive half an elk, which is one of the reasons I decided to give up my vegetarian diet.
I'm unprepared of course, I did buy this little meat grinder...
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and watched a youtube video on butchering elk...
When I was young I helped a neighbor butcher a cow. All I really remember about butchering something this large it is that it was one of the hardest things I ever helped with and it went on and on all day and into the evening.
Even half an elk is huge. I gave our landowner elk permit to a different neighbor who is a hunter & guide.
I know the grinder is going to be small, but we don't have funds for a bigger unit and considering it is seldom used, I pulled the trigger on this deal.
So there's that...
One of the many great things I can say about attaching a greenhouse to the home is the constant contact with our fish and plants. Feeding this morning I noticed the pond level low and the sump level high, something I have not seen before. So I asked myself, "what is different?" Well the dual SLO is new...
Cool, the new design created this weekend has increased flow so much that the pond had more water removed than replaced by the growbeds!
That means the flow through the filters can handle what our Laguna 660gps pump can deliver with room for more flow if I decide we need the next size up from Laguna.
I slowed the air to the dual air-lift pumps and had the water increasing in the pond. Now I'll need to tweak the air-lifts for equilibrium. Finally I can tweak this flow. Before I could only hope for 1/3 to 1/2 the water going though the filters.
Now I can use a technique I use as a trouble shooter (for analog systems) to find a sweet spot. Go past what you think is good and watch for the effect we are after, drop off and come back to where it drops off again and then you know the best condition is in the middle!
Yes, I'm loving being home most of the time now. So there is something good coming out of the down-scaling of "Average Citizen's share of the pie we used to call Reaganomics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics. Of course I put most of my energy over the last ten years into preparing for a worse president than Bush. It appears that prophecy held up better than the Peak-oil prophecy did, too bad about our luck.
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Happy grower
Brian Rodgers