Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

LOL, guess we have a differing idea as to fair sized

It's fairly typical for this area of the country for people on wells I'd say ... at least from what I have seen.

And it's all wells where we're at - no city water here.

Mine in 113 gal, and that is connected to my 16k gal catchment tanks.

Do you have a well ?

My thinking, given your well solution would be a storage tank with maybe 2x your daily requirement.

I think that would be a pretty big tank ... if we're talking about household use + irrigation/watering.

OTOH, it would really cut down on short cycling the pump.

No clue how to plumb that relevant your well.

I don't think I'd want it plumbed into the same water system our well is on ... for a variety of reasons.

First among them: I'm not sure whether it would even be legal - at least without jumping through a bunch of hoops ... given that our well is considered a "private water system" ... and would fall under the jurisdiction of the local county health department.

Wish I could get totes that cheap.

Yeah, price seemed reasonable to me.

Lots of folks use them here especially if they only have a small system and have to haul water.

Right.

Just recently I lent a friend 4 open tanks totally 570g to collect for his nursery. He decided to plumb to move any overflow to his 3k house tank.

I would assume that he has some way to disinfect/sterilize it correct ?

Don't get me wrong: I'm really not very squeamish - just ask The Woman - and I have drank plenty of rain water collected from gutters and stored in a cistern when I was down on the farm in VA ...

I suspect you could readily fashion a gravity feed system that would suffice for non house use. A couple of filters and connect to house maybe.

Yup ... looks to be pretty easy to do: just some downspout diverters and hose or piping and a tank.

 

[ronjhall]

Wait for coffee to cool a little. 43° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 81° with mostly sunny skies. Did not get hold downs installed on trailer. Will wait until later this week to finish. Want to make sure paint is fully dried before loading Mule on trailer. Instruction say to wait days before putting any heavy wait on surface. Neighbor got new heater installed on pool. I went over to see if they needed old heater hauled away. Nope they took old one with them. Neighborhood picnic was fun and pork was great. Going to help neighbor get Duce and Half ready for tomorrows parade today.

Prayers and best wishes for everyone.

Good Morning All.

 

[sodamo]

RS, no well here, we are on rainwater catchment. Process thru a series of filters and UV light sterilizer, which is kinda standard. There is 1 well in the neighborhood. Only the bottom 3 or 4 houses are on county water.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
pretty bird Ron with a Kubota orange beak!

80 degrees here today, no plans other than heading over to brother's for glass of wine this afternoon.
might wash the car

very pleased with how the rv towed the trailer with golf cart on it. I think it made the rv handle better, like a trawler
with a steadying sail. might work on that boo boo today.
forgot to put out flags yesterday, need to do that today also.

RS, with all your plants, a water recovery system makes sense. Of course it has to rain first...drying out here too.

my Memorial Day memories are a little different than many. Thankfully none of the earlier gen lost their lives in wars.
So my Memorial is for the 10-12 Augenblicks who were jammed in a cattle car in Brody Ukraine and hauled off to Belzec concentration
camp a few hours North in 1942. Never to be seen again.
Never Forget.

 

[Spike56]

Good morning from Central Texas. The weather seems to be stabilizing into the Texas summertime pattern, I think? There is some miniscule rain chance tomorrow, which would be nice. I was able to get my hay baled finally. Was able to get 17.5 bales off 7/acres.
Today our American Legion is having a ceremony in the town square. Guest speaker is the local VA representative and a 21-gun salute.

Memorial Day to remember our people who have given their lives. Cannot even imagine the wounded + family members effected.

As reported on Wikipedia:

 

[daugen]

and while there are things we should never forget, never diminish, never lose the importance of,
life is a balance
so better that we approach it with
every day is an opportunity for kindness.

Freedom is not free. Memorial Day reminds us of that.
Spike's chart shows that.

Must be a very sober day in Ukraine.

which reminds me I've been driving around with that worn out American flag in my trunk, this afternoon on way to brother's home
will swing by American Legion and look for drop off box. I also have to put up the new house flag and have been procrastinating, likely means tearing out old
encrusted mount. Will try to preserve it, see if new rod fits in. This one rotates, hopefully to avoid my daily trip to untangle the flag.

for July 4th, up in Michigan, I bought a pack of 100 made in US mini flags, will give some to brother. They were cheap enough, about 30 cents each.

need to find some sparklers, pretty sure not sold around here. Maybe in Lower Bucks.
Likely they will get banned at some point due to air pollution.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temperature is 40 and the high they say to 81°F.
Wind WSW 5 to 10 mph. Abundant sunshine! Zero precipitation.

I will work on the tin until noon and that will be it for today. Then fire up tractor and fill in a couple of ruts I made in the spring with compost. It is on the north field, so after I fill them in the field can grow until the grass goes to seed. I will cut it in the fall when I get back from the northwest.
I tried to fire up my laptop (only use it in summer) and the battery was flat. Plugged it in for 12 hours and it is still telling me that the battery is flat. So this summer I will be using the daughter in laws laptop. It isn't like she needs it anymore.
I have a tiny bit of hoe work to do that may get done today or might not, we will see how I feel after the tin work.
Time to see how much money I didn't win on last nights lottery draw.

Have a safe and happy Memorial Day all.
Lest we forget

 

[m7040]

my Memorial Day memories are a little different than many. Thankfully none of the earlier gen lost their lives in wars.
So my Memorial is for the 10-12 Augenblicks who were jammed in a cattle car in Brody Ukraine and hauled off to Belzec concentration
camp a few hours North in 1942. Never to be seen again.
Never Forget.

Drew, this reminds me about being born during the occupation during world war 2 in Denmark and the efforts my country men went through to save the Danish jews from deportation and certain death.

Danish resistance movement, with the assistance of many Danish citizens, managed to evacuate 7,220 of Denmark's 7,800 Jews, plus 686 non-Jewish spouses, by sea to nearby neutral Swedenduring the Second World War.[1] The arrest and deportation of Danish Jews was ordered by the German leader Adolf ******, but the efforts to save them started earlier due to the plans being leaked on September 28, 1943 by German diplomat Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz.

The rescue is considered one of the largest actions of collective resistance to aggression in the countries occupied by Germany during the Second World War. As a result of the rescue, and of the following Danish intercession on behalf of the 464 Danish Jews who were captured and deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, over 99% of Denmark's Jewish population survived the Holocaust

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 67˚F heading to the mid 80s, South breeze, partly cloudy. Had a surprise .04" rain yesterday afternoon.

The first day of pick your own peaches was a success There were alway at least 50 people picking and toward the end of the day it was hard to find that perfect ripe peach. But I did find one and it was worth the hunt, Soft, juicy and sweet.
The BBQ also was more popular than the crawfish. Attendance was up and people were waiting for the trailer ride which is how I like it.

This is a pic from the tractor road looking across #2 Christmas tree field at the June Gold peach orchard.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
56 and might reach 80 today under a sunny sky.

Yesterday was relatively productive, started by having breakfast with the professor, then fixing his pressure washer. Pretty easy repair, it had apparently rolled over and soaked the pleated paper air filter in oil. Washing it in gas and blowing it out solved the problem, it was as good as new. Next was finishing trimming the fence posts and identifying the next section of fabric to be replaced.
Took the string trimmer for a walk, cleared out around the outdoor units for the heat pumps in the shop, replaced the cap on the supply well, put some stuff away, still looking for a tool bag that I left somewhere, but keep finding other treasure along the way.

Got the pressure washer out to do the pool deck, but didn’t have to run it, son took over and did a great job. Pool was just uncovered, and is clearing up nicely. Way to cold for me though.

That pool is over 50 years old and in perfect condition, the filter and pump has been changed, but not a single crack in the concrete. That’s the same son being “saved” by the dog that is running the pressure washer in the same pool almost 4 decades earlier. Newfies are great swimmers, and have an instinct to save people, so they are no fun to swim with……..

Wife was complaining that she was short of breath, so I consulted with our daughter the ER nurse (standing on the pool steps in the picture) and she took her to the hospital, where she checked out fine and they sent her home. (She didn’t want to bother her doctor on a holiday weekend).

Grilled burgers for the wife and I, Spent some time with Zoe, continuing her training, and did a little RC flying before calling it a day.