What I did today.

At a former club I worked at an employee asked me what I did on my day off.  Simple little game you play at work.

Well, my wife is a bit on the frugal side and she wants to have a garden in the backyard.  She doesn't want to rent a tiller though so she was looking into alternatives to regular gardening.  She looked into container gardening, raised beds, hydroponics, and aquaponics.

One guy (a customer at the club) said that he knew what hydro was (and he really liked it when he could afford it) but what's aquaponics?

Like hydroponics but better and more efficient.  You have the plants in the growing medium aka gravel and water floods it and then drains.  The major difference is that the water has fish living in it instead of you putting chemicals in it.  You feed the fish and the fish do their business in the water, it floods over the roots and the plants filter out the nutrients.

But of course you have to feed the fish and that is why I was making a worm garden last night.  We never did get an aquaponics system going but my father talked to my wife about the idea and he went crazy with it.  His aquaponic system was actually the largest system in the state.  Some day I will find the pictures of his system and post them.

What's this post about?  We need the house painted and called a company for their quote.  Their bid was closer to $10,000 than to $9,000.  That's why I spent this day painting a bedroom.