What are you doing today?

[GaryE]

A great day. I bought my ticket to a J.S. Bach marathon being put on by the Bach in Baltimore Society. The concert will be held this Sunday from 1 pm to 6 pm. This is Baroque heaven.

I hope you aren't broke after going for baroque like that. I guess there's no looking Bach now.

I am being pleased with the fishroom today. Spring cleaning is done, and if you lot showed up on a cruise ship this summer, I wouldn't worry about showing you around. It's nice and neat and uncluttered out there. I tend to run well managed tanks, but I'm not always as good with the shelves around the tanks, and my tendency to put things down when I'm done with them and not put them away. I spend too much time on the old "now where did I see that?" hunts.

I should have some free time after supper to go looking for killie eggs. Plants are trimmed, glass is cleaned, racks are rebuilt, things are in their proper bins, tools are together, tetras, killies and Cichlids are in breeding tanks, house plants are ferted and watered... plus the sun's shining.

Right now, I have some Fela Kuti playing on the cheap sound system, but when it's done, maybe some Bach, the Brandenburgs, in honour of @gwand .

 

[gwand]

I hope you aren't broke after going for baroque like that. I guess there's no looking Bach now.

I am being pleased with the fishroom today. Spring cleaning is done, and if you lot showed up on a cruise ship this summer, I wouldn't worry about showing you around. It's nice and neat and uncluttered out there. I tend to run well managed tanks, but I'm not always as good with the shelves around the tanks, and my tendency to put things down when I'm done with them and not put them away. I spend too much time on the old "now where did I see that?" hunts.

I should have some free time after supper to go looking for killie eggs. Plants are trimmed, glass is cleaned, racks are rebuilt, things are in their proper bins, tools are together, tetras, killies and Cichlids are in breeding tanks, house plants are ferted and watered... plus the sun's shining.

Right now, I have some Fela Kuti playing on the cheap sound system, but when it's done, maybe some Bach, the Brandenburgs, in honour of @gwand .

When I get Bach from the marathon I will be in a fugue state.

 

[Alice B]

I have very old copper in much of the house. I usually purchase a compression fitting and use it as a coupling from old to new or old to old. To often when playing with old piping something breaks someplace unexpectedly. The compression fitting alleviates the hard to solder issue and the breaking elsewhere issue.

Likely not code but I only care about what works.

we got a different torch, with MAPP gas, and better flux, did cut out the old retried and retried fitting and replaced it. I have hot water. Fish will have to wait til tomorrow. 10 hour pond cleanup today. That compression fitting is a really good idea, but this was a T coming off the old pipe and I'm not sure if we could have used one.