The electricity was off today for about 5 hours. It went off about the same time the fire started in the field next to our house so I was mostly focused on the fire and didn’t think anything about my 100 fish in my aquaponics system in my greenhouse. About 9 pm I went out to feed them and they were all floating on the top of the water dead. I have air pumps that pump oxygen into the water constantly and a water pump that pumps the water into the gravel grow beds to filter the fish poop out, both obviously run on electricity. I had no idea that is all the time it would take for them to die from lack of oxygen. Netted them all and put them in a cooler with ice, filleted them in my wife’s kitchen, she is a good wife. vacuum packet them and they are now in the freezer. Oh well, I guess it is time to buy some more baby fish. I was reading about a 12 volt back up system using regular car batteries that comes on automatically if the electricity goes off, I guess I better invest in one of those. Life is funny like that, just relaxing from all the excitement from the fire and woops, dead fish! It is times like this when I also need to switch into another mode of acting and thinking. It would be nice if there were some kind of program where the switch would happen automatically, but it is pretty much a choice and often a hard choice. Act happy, rejoice, be nice, don’t be grumpy, not even a little bit, sing, don’t feel sorry for yourself. Whooooeee I think I did pretty good. Got a little grumpy when Patty asked me why I wasn’t cleaning the fish outside on the fish cleaning table she got me for Christmas😄