Life…is never simple. I had a little video all ready to share with you all so we could have a virtual spaghetti party…and now, after spending all evening figuring how to edit it down to about three minutes and trying to figure how to compress it into a reasonable sized file…Word Press won’t accept it! WAH! It says it will do video, but it must be really minimal, cuz I got it down to 13M and it still wouldn’t take it.  I thought we could do like podcasts with this and everything, but not so’s I can figure.

I think I’m going to have to get a You Tube account. ARGH!  Meantime, a few sampler moments:

And here we have our lovely model to demonstrate the simple application of green spaghetti. But wait! Call now and you’ll get, not one, not two, but three—Huh? Oops, wrong commercial.

Back to our model. First you go to the waterfall and walk carefully up the steps to the balancing rock. (Sorry. No picture. Guess I should take one.) Then you lift the lid…

Yummy!   OTOH, it might be wise to turn off the pump first.

That’s better. Now, you take out the white top filter…

Double yummy! Ooo, look! There’s a worm! 

Take the pad (quickly!) to rinse it out. Oh, and while you’re at it, you might as well get the one out of the skimmer basket which you know darn well you forgot to rinse out yesterday!

Back to our model….

Having gotten past the child-proof plastic wrapper with a chainsaw and blow torch, you begin to carefully pull the spagetti out of it roll, hoping it doesn’t spring out all over you.

 And you pull.

And pull. And hand off to the next relay runner….

And pull…until…suddenly:

Link to You Tube video

Tada! You’re done!

Okay…You Tube is apparently up and running. My silly home video is up. If you really want to see the release of silly string into the filter, here it is, in all its…silliness.