Jon, an audiophile, awesome guy & extended family member (Zippys Brother) is helping me out with some advice and tips for perfecting all the audio I produce as well as helping me go in the right direction with the recording studio I’m putting together. He suggested I get this book. I just got it in today and I’m already excited just by the pure volume of the book. There is a ton of information in this book and I’m ready to start soaking it up. It’s always fun learning new things and right now acoustics & audio in general is way out left field to me so I have a whole lot to learn!
Google lets you preview the book here.
Thanks Jon!
That target was only 7 yards away but that’s 20 rounds using my Glock 19.
Saturday was a great temperature outside so I took a break from work and built a bench. It’s a really simple sectional flower pot bench. It was raining most of the day so I setup a little shelter for the power tools using military shelter halfs, got some beer & began building. Building simple things with wood is definitely relaxing.
All it needs now is some water sealer. Once I do that Zippy is going to fill the planters with rocks and put flowers in em.
The Crazy Fish!
If you remember, a while back I made a post about putting a few Koi in our pond. Zippy and I both assumed the snapping turtles had to have eaten the 4 Sarassah and 2 Koi fish we put in our pond. We have a pretty big pond but since we didn’t see them again after putting them in there we figured they were gone for sure. Boy were we wrong. The pond, still covered in algea, has spawned TONS of those little white and gold fish. The water line is going back down to normal so we can see into the deeper parts of the pond where there are now schools of small to medium sized white and gold fish. Sometime between April 15th & now the Sarassah or Koi multiplied. It’s exciting to see so much colorful life in the pond.
I’m willing to bet the Grass Carp I put in there a while back to clean up the algae are still alive as well. I’m not sure if the Koi & Sarassah like the fact the pond is covered in algae or not. I’ve had an aerating pump in the middle of the pond for a while so they are getting a little bit of fresh air and since they are multiplying I can only assume their situation must be acceptable. Now that we know they are in there we are going to start feeding them regularly in one spot to draw them in for pictures & viewing. I’m glad we just dropped them in the water months ago. Now I’m excited to find out how they fare the winter. If this trend continues our pond will be full of big colorful fish to see. Even as things stand right now, if you live relatively near to us and want some white and gold fish in your pond it would seem we can help cater to that. I’m sure they must work out their own population control but at this rate we’ll have no problem helping others populate their ponds. Zippy and I must have stood in awe at least an hour after noticing all those bright fish swimming around in the pond. I’m still amazed.
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I’ll repeat what I just said for clarity sake just in case anyone else out there is interested in the information. We have a medium sized natural pond on our property. When taken in the context of a Koi some would call what we have a Mud Pond. Earlier this year we spent $70 to put 6 brightly colored fish in it. 2 of them were Koi and 4 were Sarassah which look a lot like Koi but are a bit smaller. I also built and installed small pond pump / aerator.
Here I am on our golf cart in front of our algae covered pond so you can get an idea of the size.
We put the fish in the pond in early April when it was clear of algae. Not long after that the algae grew faster then I could clean it so I just gave up on it and put two grass carp in the pond and let it be. Since then the rain has brought the pond water level up so high it spilled over into our yard and then receded back down due to evaporation from the high heat we’ve had the last few days. Everything except the aerating pump we put in was left completely natural. We didn’t even feed any of the fish we put in the pond, we didn’t do anything other than put the fish & an aerator in there and then 3 - 4 months later we now see schools of what are probably Sarassah fish swimming around near the shallower sections of the pond. All the fish we saw looked very bright, healthy and fast. They seem to really get a long well in the natural pond.
The pond is naturally heavily inhabited by a lot of painted, box & snapping turtles as well ass thousands of frogs and toads. In mid to late spring you couldn’t look at the pond without seeing hundreds of tad poles.
I haven’t had a chance to post so here I go trying to catch up.
My little brother Chris got to hang out with Zippy and I for the last two weeks. We had a great time shooting things up, blowing things up, swimming, and flying around on the golf cart. He even came to work with us a little bit.
Chris enjoying himself with Shawns gun. an MP5 I believe. A few weekends ago Shawn came over to our house and we shot off a ton of ammo. Check out all those pictures here.
The 4th!
My Grandma made sure quite a few of our family members showed up for the 4th. The line up consisted of…
My mom, Dale, my brother Chris, Aunt Jodi, Scott, their daughter Kathy, Uncle Craig, Michelle, my other brother Matt, Crystal, along with my first nephew Liam. Bobs brother Bill, and Ilene were there as well. As far as I know everyone had a great time.
Zippy and I sponsored two nights of beer & fireworks which was really fun. I really enjoyed hanging out with everyone who came to visit us on the 4th. I didn’t take any pictures but I’m sure I can collect some from someone who did. I’ll note that if you go to see a fireworks show, get 3D glasses! It makes fireworks much more entertaining to see each individual light from a fireworks report get ripped apart into multiple blasts of color. I’ve got our fireworks bin loaded up for next year with a ton of fireworks (3D) glasses.