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So it's that time again....winter pasttimes?

nobbie48 said:
Ignorant me. Lego was, in my mind, some cheap snap together plastic mini-bricks. Then I wandered into a Lego store. Choke. Build a space ship for a few hundred dollars.
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I'm trying to be more strategic now. I was buying sets and my girls had no interest in the instructions. They just want to build their own designs. I'd be rebuilding their sets at night just for them to wake up and tear them apart to make their own.

Now I just try for small sets with people that they want and then get bulk bags of lego of marketplace. When they can't find a little special piece I shame the F**k out of them for not taking care of their lego.
 
Jampy00 said:
This winter I'm getting back into aquariums, Luckily I have most of the aquariums already (just empty)
And with a lot of equipment being much less expensive now (thanks Amazon) I look forward to expanding my hobby and not bursting my budget.
If you're into fish, let me know always looking to discuss the hobby or trade fish equipment.
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Have a bunch of fish but they reside in a small pond / water garden in the backyard. Ice has formed but we still see them swimming about slowly. Just pet store goldfish / feeder fish but after a few years if the blue heron doesn't clean them out they get to be a nice size.
 
Racked off another batch of hard cider.
Less than half the price of beer and it consistently ends ups about 6.5%/volume.
Only two ingredients - apples (pure local cider) and a bit of yeast. What's not to like.
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timtune said:
Racked off another batch of hard cider.
Less than half the price of beer and it consistently ends ups about 6.5%/volume.
Only two ingredients - apples (pure local cider) and a bit of yeast. What's not to like.
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Oooo….maybe a trade for some of my home brew…

But mines closer to 40-60%….
 
GreyGhost said:
What kind of monster sits an eaten apple down stem side towards the floor?
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I thought about that briefly when I was making the stencil and then thought, as I often do, "why be normal?"
 
timtune said:
Have a bunch of fish but they reside in a small pond / water garden in the backyard. Ice has formed but we still see them swimming about slowly. Just pet store goldfish / feeder fish but after a few years if the blue heron doesn't clean them out they get to be a nice size.
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Yeah, I think you need at least 4 feet of depth to keep them safe from predators.
I love the idea of a pond, but then the thought of actually doing it changes my mind quickly.
 
Jampy00 said:
Yeah, I think you need at least 4 feet of depth to keep them safe from predators.
I love the idea of a pond, but then the thought of actually doing it changes my mind quickly.
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Didn't know that. I have a 3 foot "deep end" which allows them to over winter. (we keep a bubbler running all winter).
My "pond" would fit in any backyard. It's roughly figure "8" shaped. About 13ft long and 6ft across the larger bottom part.
Very easy to construct. Sump pump runs the waterfall and that's it. No filters. Don't have to feed the fish.
I'll try to find a pic.
 
GreyGhost said:
I don't love most modern lego kits that are produced with 1000 special parts that only come in that kit. Imo, there was more magic when they used a limited set of blocks and lots of ingenuity.
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Lego is part of what made me who I am today. I would frequently use some fairly standard parts to make guns that fired massive elastic bands, using a trigger assembly that I adapted from pictures of Medieval crossbows. They would last maybe a dozen shots before self destructing.
 
St Marys. A "town worth living in" if can believe our historic stone water tower.
 
GreyGhost said:
Not always. Walk 50m from the swanky downtown of some expensive GTA suburbs and you can find places like that. It's sad.
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Mini-Hoods..
 
IMG_0138.JPGPond pics as promised. Except for the area in front of the waterfall there is a one foot ledge one foot down (for potted plants). Inside that it drops another foot in the shallow end and slopes down another foot to 3ft in the larger end. Waterfal in powered by a basic sump/utility pump.
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