Collecting Rain Water

Due to drought conditions and constant reminders about the drought conditions and lots of water cooler talk about drought conditions, we all have water on the brain.

Not actual water on the brain as we are in drought conditions.

Everywhere we look or listen, there are postings, articles, news stories.

And the water department provides pop ups as well:

So when the thunder and lightning and deluge showed up this weekend, we thought:

COLLECT THE WATER, STORE THE WATER, DON'T WASTE ALL THAT WATER!!!!

Treating the rain as if gold was pouring from our darkened sky.

So that is what we did:

The rain kept coming so we moved from little containers to bigger buckets to wheelbarrow to recycling bin and then fashioned some tubing to direct the runoff from the gutters out toward what had been 'crunchy' grass the day before.

And today it is bright and sunny and we are feeling very water-wise!