Well after the 3rd coldest recorded January, and February trying to make up for the lack of snow fall the rest of this winter, March is off to a good start. The first several days have been in the 20's with lots of beautiful sun shine. We're back to that part of the year where you can actually feel the warmth on your face when the sun is out... that's a wonderful feeling after several months without it.
I got out my little electric airplane and flew it around the front yard a couple of times over my last break... motivated me enough to start framing up an airplane for the coming flying season (it's only been sitting on the bench since August).
I've done a lot of work on our tropical fish tank the last couple of months. I was getting bored with it and decided to try live plants. The first attempt was a disaster, the gravel I had was way to big, and I wasn't using any substrate at all, so we had to use fertilizer. In about a months time, the tank was so over run with algae it was scary! I stripped the tank all the way down, put in a good bed of substrate with a thin layer of small gravel over the top. I don't have problems with the fish uprooting the plants anymore, and the plants are growing well, without the algae problem we saw before. There is still some algae growth in the tank, but no more than we saw before we put in live plants. It's interesting that while live plants aren't nearly as perfect as the plastic ones, they are somehow much more attractive in their imperfection.
