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To: TenthAmendmentChampion

Good, you will find it helps, LOL, the yeast does.

When mine gets sluggish, it get yeast, if I smell any gas coming from it, it get fed yeast.

A friend had the most beautiful trees, and I asked her how she afforded the water, as we are talking about many many trees.

She dug her own drainage off the septic, [leach lines] and then planted seedling trees on top of the leach line, when the roots filled it, she dug another leach line.

These were shade and flowering trees, she did not grow food on the leach lines.

My kitchen drain was replumbed before we bought the place, it goes straight out of the wall and then is piped [moveable ] to trees, the fig lived on it for over 30 years.

Part of the time i had a dishwasher.

The washer is / was in the greenhouse and it was easy to divert it to the yard and plant bamboo there.

The hardest part was getting the part the washer hose goes into, at the right height, so it drained right, too low and it drains on its own, too high and it splashes.

The bathtub, was disconnected from the sewer, a mickey mouse setup, but it works and I can hook a water hose to it and water the big Mulberry tree or other plants in the front yard.

It drives men wild, but I like it just as it is.

When we first came to Arizona, we hauled every drop of water, LOL, you never get over the fear of running out of water and not having a way to get more.

In time, we made a tank on a trailer for hauling water and got a storage tank, but in the beginning, Bill was sick and the doctor said “Arizona” , so even a quart jar, was a water jar.


9,039 posted on 12/22/2008 7:36:28 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts?page=7451 [Survival,food,garden,crafts,and more)
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To: nw_arizona_granny
When we first came to Arizona, we hauled every drop of water, LOL, you never get over the fear of running out of water and not having a way to get more.

My sister in law lives up in a town called Walker (southeast of Prescott, about 7400 ft elevation). They cannot get water there and have to have it hauled in. They have a storage tank and watch how much water they use.

One time just before the next delivery, my brother in law got stuck in the water tank and it was getting dark. He was pounding on the side of the tank but no one heard him. It gets cold there at night! He finally got his wife's attention when she started wondering where he was and she was able to help him get out. It was funny the way he told the story but he was miserable in there with the cold coming on. Good thing he has a sense of humor!

9,044 posted on 12/22/2008 10:41:29 PM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion (Join us on the best FR thread, 8000+ posts: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts)
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