An Experiment in Scotch

Well we had a lit­tle storm roll through Wylie this morn­ing and there is good news and bad news. The good news is that 3/10ths of an inch of rain trans­lated into about 40ish gal­lons of rain­wa­ter in the col­lec­tion sys­tem. That tells me we don’t have nearly enough col­lec­tion capac­ity but for now, I’m …

For the past two week­ends, we’ve been work­ing on a rain bar­rel project after see­ing an arti­cle in the Dal­las Morn­ing News about them. When we first moved to our house, we bought a trash can and stuck it under a rain spout which was ok for awhile but was decid­edly low tech and even­tu­ally …