Water!

For a number of years I have had a mini water collection system off the roof of the little shed where I keep the firewood. This consisted of a couple of tanks sitting on the ground which were connected to the rainwater down pipe and which were very rarely full. This water is only used for the garden.

We have been warned that this year could be a significantly dry one so I decided to extend and upgrade this little collection system so that if we did get rain we could keep the garden alive.

 

I bought two extra tanks and built a strong timber stand to lift the tanks off the floor. This was so that we could get a bucket under the taps I fitted to each tank.

 

 The tanks were interconnected, spilling from one to the next.

My dear wife tended to knock my system and told me that we would never get the tanks full. 

She must have jinxed us as later in the day we had the heaviest rain storm I ever remember. The rain continued throughout the following day and the tanks are now overflowing. I never thought to put in an overflow pipe as I never expected such rain. It even filled up one of the wheel barrows that I had left out.

Of course the ground is now so wet we don't need to water the plants anyway.

Such is life!!