Oh, no!  Not aquaponics again!  I hate to bore you again with that subject again, but, yes, that's it, all over again.  The continuing saga of aquaponics.  The never-ending (it seems) story. 

Well, at least now it has a gutter to help divert the rain, and a piece of corrugated vinyl to help keep the rain off.

After installing the gutter on the edge of the roof, and the corrugated vinyl to keep the rain off, and adjusting the water flow on the flush tank, I thought I had the whole thing figured out.  Wrong!  Without full water flow the flush tank would not flush!  And, every time the flush tank flushes, the grow beds would get too full of water.  No good.  Even though the grow beds were draining completely when I got them first set up, as time went by, they were draining more and more slowly.  Now, they will not drain quickly enough with the full water flow from the flush tank, so that they were overflowing every time.  Very frustrating.


My only option now is to bypass the flush tank entirely, and just water the grow beds using a timer.  It still works fine, but it's too bad, after going to all that work to get the flush tank put together and getting the thing finally working.  Well, the important part is to keep the fish alive, and to keep the plants properly watered.  Since the green bean seeds still have not started coming up, I decided to re-plant.  I figure with all the flooding and drying out over the last week, they probably died.  So, new green bean seeds last night.

Nope.  Nothing to do with aquaponics this time.  No, this is something totally different.  For those of you who have been following our family lately, this is something we (that is, Brenda and I) have been dreaming about recently.

Yep.  That's right.  A travel trailer.

It's ours.  We got it about 3 weeks ago.  We don't know beans from applesauce about how the thing works, but we are learning.  It's a steep learning curve.  It's 16 feet long.  I know.  We were talking about getting a cute little old antique from the 50's or 60's.  The problem we kept running into was that the ones we could afford were junk.  The ones that were really nice, and were in really nice condition, and useable, were terribly expensive.  This one is nearly brand new.  It's only 3 years old, and the company that owned it hardly used it at all.  The toilet never got used at all.  We got it for half the price of a new one.  You just can't beat that kind of a deal.


It even has a microwave.

We took it in to an RV repair shop here in Springfield to have it checked over, since it hadn't been used for a while, and everything checked out good.  Brenda and I are going to try to take it to the lake over the weekend just to try it out sometime soon.  We are getting some RV books and videos to study to learn about how the thing works.  We need to get a membership in some RV clubs and campground memberships and stuff, so that we know where we can camp out when we travel.  We are thinking about doing some traveling when I retire next year.

The toilet will be quite an adventure the first time we use that.

The table folds up and then it makes up into a full-size bed for Brenda and I.  It has heat and A/C.  It also has a refrigerator and a stove.

It only weighs 2,000 pounds, so it will tow very easily behind the Land Cruiser.  Really, it doesn't weigh any more than the older antique trailers from the 50's and 60's and they didn't have all the nice things in them that this one has.  So, we are very pleased with this.