Moved 1000 gallons today with the gennie, a pump and 200 ft. of hose to a high tank...dumped the last 200 gallons. Now I got an empty far away tank ready to tip'n'roll. Gonna have to climb inside and scrub out the slime before placing this one in position on the SE end of the greenhouse. Still have the other tank to empty (pulled off 125 gallons at the end of the day for some select yuccas) but in no big rush to get that one into place. With two 3,000 gallon tanks hooked up to the gutters - I will need about 4" of rain to fill them and I reckon it will be awhile till TFL accumulates that much this year. 80,94,52, 0,C
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Don't get blown away while inside.
Of course it could be a new Olympic game "Desert Hamster Wheeling", they do not have enough desert games in the Olympics anyway.
Down here the experts tell us to try to conserve the fall, that is, store your water as high as you can so you can use gravity when you use it instead of always having to use a pump. Sometimes that is just not possible.
Here we get over a meter and a half of rain each year, all during the summer time, so we try to store as much as we can in huge cisterns. We have to buy truck loads of water, it is rather expensive because of the transportation costs.
I hope some other critter does not get that first yucca bloom before Benita gets it for her birthday.
Use the pebbles inside the tank to scrub it.
Great blog! One of the newbies who got to your site via NYT on to the Philippines.
Read from Entry 1. Great to imagine the mysterious desert with news of the Japan disaster on background.
maybe sand and pebbles to clean your slime.
I always wondered what you did to keep stuff from growing in the water tanks. Guess I assumed the darkness inside would help keep things from getting out of hand. Guess not.
the water inside these tanks is creek water that is about 2 years old....and yes a critter did get the first bloom - another longhorn cow found it and knocked over the yucca...but there are plenty more starting out here this time of year.
Wish these first time commenters would tell us where they're writing from. Larry Prater, for example. Where ya from, fella? A meter and a half of rain a year is a tremendous amount! I sure like your concept of "conserve the fall". I have been thinking along those lines for a long time, now, in my "Escape To Terlingua" planning.
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