We garden at our house, though to date it hasn’t been very intensive gardening. We are working towards changing that and and the first step was getting rain barrels and installing them under our back yard downspouts.
Things learned: 1. When April is this wet, they fill up fast. 2. The overflow port isn’t a joke. 3. How high is too high? Well 3 feet is too high but the water pressure still sucks.
This leads me to the reason I’m posting this here and not in my personal cry-ass blog about my feelings. Besides computers, and now apparently gardens, I like to ride bicycles. I also have a water pressure problem with my rain barrels. I think the only plausible solution is building my own bicycle powered barrel pump. I’m cheating a little bit and buying the rotary barrel pump, but I’m going to hack saw and rubber hose crimp and Kee Klamp my way to something ridiculous.
I plan on documenting it here as it goes, and then finally submitting the whole damn thing to instructables.com (quickly becoming my new favorite website).
Computer Add-on: I “rock” one of the new 15” unibody macbook pros, this is a direct result of my employer's generous laptop assistance program. I run windows using Boot Camp and quick boot into OS X for most of my leisure time computing. It turns out that 100 gb isn’t nearly enough disk space for a Vista partition when you are going to be actively developing with Visual Studio on up to 3 different monstrous subversion branches. I only made my Boot Camp 100gb though. This weekend I managed to correct this situation using this helpful tutorial, a 500gb back up drive and a number of prayers to Crom. ‘Twas very helpful.
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