They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
Well, the water collection system survived its first rain storm... Mostly. We got a little over an inch of rain from Friday morning to Sunday night. The gutter downspout simply didn't work, it just ran out the fitting around the pipe. So Uncle Adam took the top off the manway on the tank and jammed… Continue reading Water Catchment System, Damage Report
Our rainwater catchment system has three parts, in the simplest analysis. Collection, storage, and retrieval. Phase one, and by far the most expensive part, was setting the the storage system, that is, the big 5,000 gallon tank. Phase two we knock out last weekend, setting up the collection portion of the system. This is the… Continue reading Rainwater Catchment System, Phase II
We have been doing site prep for a water tank install for the last couple of weeks. It was supposed to Arrive on Good Friday, but had to be delayed until the following Tuesday. It was supposed to arrive at 8:00 AM but at 6:30 in the AM I got this picture from Adam. It's… Continue reading Installing the Water Tank
We have a tank coming tomorrow. Not an army tank, a rainwater catchment tank. So Ryan and Adam spent a good chunk of the afternoon planning out exactly how we were going to get a 700lb tank in place between the barn and the pole barn without damaging themselves or any other important infrastructure. All… Continue reading Prepping for Arrival
We officially finished the pasture water line project today. That is, we covered the last 80 feet of trench. The older girls earned a dollar each pulling up a rubbermade tote of shotweed. We managed to get it green, so this patch at least did not shoot seeds all over the place. Ellie fed some… Continue reading A project finished
We always have so many projects going on at any given time, but every once in a while there is a rare day that we can all come together and check off a few of them. Last Friday before Palm Sunday (Not Good Friday) was one of those days. We had a coupon for $30… Continue reading Finishing Things Friday
Holy Saturday, the day before Easter, we sent a quiet morning filling in the trench that we dug to put the irrigation line in. 340 feet. A long way to go. We had a little four footed help out there. The pigs are well over a hundred lbs right now, just eye-balling them and not… Continue reading More Un-digging
One of the ongoing projects here at the farm is a rainwater capture tank to catch rainwater from the roof of the shop. It is quite a large tank, so we have been preparing the bed with some care. Uncle has been doing most of the digging for the last few weeks. He has been… Continue reading The Pit and the Pad
Well, it's been real. It's been fun. It's even been real fun. But you know what they say: What gets dug, must get un-dug. They.
What is Uncle up to here?
Little Farm in the Big City 