You and I are senile in exactly the same way about water! So, let’s just luxurate in it. ;-)
That water running out on freezing nights always tore me up too. For 17 years I lived in a old farmhouse on 3/4 acre. We had 1/4 acre garden and a small orchard. I undid the drain pipe on the bathtub and the kitchen sink under the house and clamped flexible washing machine drain hose on the end. My washer was in an outbuilding and already had a long drain hose like that to the garden area when I bought the house. So, I ended up being able to use the gray water from the bath, kitchen sink AND washing machine to water my fruit trees and garden. I really want to be able to do that again because it’s no use having all that “good” water going to the sewer plant.
So, I ended up being able to use the gray water from the bath, kitchen sink AND washing machine to water my fruit trees and garden. I really want to be able to do that again because it’s no use having all that “good” water going to the sewer plant.<<<
We would be dangerous if we lived near each other.
My kitchen water goes to a fig tree, that has died of old age now but lived on it for over 35 years and some blooming desert trees.
The bathtub goes to the huge male mulberry tree and once, when I had a washer, it went to a bamboo bed and other plants.
When we first moved to Arizona, we hauled water for the first 2 or 3 years, and in the beginning, in anything that would hold it, small and trouble, but water.
Later there was a 500 gallon tank on a trailer and that made it so much easier, so did the 2,000 gallon storage tank.
Where I was born, you took a bucket and went out to the tank, fed by the windmill, shooed the cows out of the way and got a bucket of water.
If you have not found your local Freecycle group, it is worth taking the time to google for Freecycle group [add your town or state] and join.
I can’t take part in it, but made sure that the family knew how to post and get rid of a lot of my stuff when I am gone.
Folks out there need everything and better yet, folks out there give away all kinds of things that I would love to have.
Today, I stopped reading the back issues of the days posts for the Freecycle group near me, I was talking to Scott about it and said “there is one here that I was going to put in the file, it is a week old, but it will give you an idea of what they are doing...”
And there it was a 4 year old Doxie cross male dog, trained and house broke..........and I missed it.
I miss not having a dog, can’t have a pup, as he will chew the oxygen hose and can’t care for a large dog.
There are often flower pots and building materials given away for free.