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["Sage Austin | Eureka! Design" <eureka AT hctc.net>]

Our closest neighbor who just put in the deeper well has passed a hose 
with a shutoff valve through our fence where are main garden is. Since 
that irrigation line is closed and buried, I'm having to use a sprinkler 
to move water around. The irrigation to the pumpkin/squash/melon patch 
across our dry creek is already connected to a hose, so I just have to 
connect this hose to that one. As for the house and animals, I fill 5 
gallon buckets with the hose and haul them where I need them. My husband 
just finished an outdoor shower last night, I'll post pics on the blog 
later this morning. The deeper well is sulfurous. So we are buying 
drinking/cooking water at the store.

Since the drought (and chickens) have done away with the smaller plant 
life along our formerly lush creekside, we do worry about erosion should 
we get a flood. We've talked about putting in a rainwater harvesting 
system in the past, but in retrospect that would have been absolutely 
useless to us these last 24 months. I think we are going to have to save 
up for a deeper well or move to greener pastures once my husband retires.

--Sage

Robert Walton wrote:
> > Today was the first day we did not break 100, it was only 97 and that,
> > sadly, felt good. Fall usually doesn't get here until October. Unless a
> > hurricane gets into the gulf, I don't know if we'll get rain.
> > Considering I've been through the 2002 and 2004 "500 year" floods where
> > I saw 29 inches of rain in a day, this is so weird. It's either feast or
> > famine.
> >
> > --Sage
> >
> >
> >     
>
> How are you getting water without the well?
>
> I'm sorry to hear about all the water problems there. We had 2 years of
> drought here, but no to that extent. You are right about feast of famine.
> This year it's rained so well and I'd cut way back on animals in the pasture
> and planted a lot less than the last two years.
>
> Hopefully the drought will break for you soon, a storm would be nice if it
> does not flood.
>
> Rob - Va
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