Chemicals to make tap water safe. Chemicals to lower pH balance from Alkaline. Chemicals to keep the pH balance at or very near 7 for fresh water fish. It’s all a bit much for my liking. So our water is good for Nitrites and nitrates, in the ideal range. Our water is soft, and our chlorine is very, very low, also in the ideal range. However we are alkaline, and our alkalinity is also high. So off I went for test strips this morning, which is why I know these esoteric details regarding our water quality. Then off I went to PetSmart to get the pH control fluids, one to go down, and one to stabilize at or near 7, which is neutral if I remember grade school chemistry at all.
So now we wait for the chemicals to percolate through the entire tank, and make the rounds through the filters, and in another few hours I will test again. See where we are. Might be forced to put the purchase of a few fish off for the night while the water gets sorted. I don’t know. I do not fancy having to break it to my youngest that she might need to wait yet another day lest we kill all of the newly (to be) purchased fish. Seems a shame to rush out and then kill them all over night with less than ideal water conditions.
So besides getting several invoices paid over the last few days, and hitting up Wonderland yesterday, and working on some volunteer projects this morning, I haven’t gotten up to much. I did just buy new locking caster wheels for my bench top jointer cart, so that it’ll stay put as I try to run lengths of boards over those spinning blades. Seems helpful to have the machine remain stationary as I hold on to four, six or eight foot long boards running over top of its cutting surface. Should feel a tad safer now. I don’t much care if the planer moves, I feed into it and walk away. The jointer however requires my presence, and active participation.
My taekwondo belt display is slowly progressing. I have the header glued up ready to be planted flat. Then I’ll cut the mounting grooves. Then cut out the shape and then glue the whole lot together. Then I can sand it down a bunch, and then add the clear coat finish. Then pop in the dowels and call it a day! Not necessarily in that order, but you know what I mean.
Back to Monday with all of us. Tomorrow two of my brothers have birthdays. They aren’t twins, just born on the same day two years apart. They will be turning fifty and forty eight respectively. Two of us are now fifty and over, and two of us are still in our forties. My my what a time to be alive! Being at Wonderland yesterday my daughter and I lamented that my brothers were not able to come visit in Ontario this year to try out the new Alpenfury ride. Perhaps next year will work out in our favour!
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