I love my home and our land. Yeah, there are a few downsides, like getting snowed in or flooded in, but nothing is harder on a family then a water problem. Problem you ask? Well, it's like this: our farmstead is sitting near the top of a large pile of iron ore. There is not much water inside of a rock. Our well is 350 feet deep with a 1,600 gallon storage tank and we still lose water from time to time during the year. The whole neighborhood is like this, the whole hill for that matter. Some have good water systems, some have no water at all and have it hauled in and then there one's like us where we get a gallon every five minutes on a good day. It just depends on your luck around here. So, after three years we have decided to up our luck and be proactive about a problem we have no controller over. We have decided to put in a rain water cistern system that will run off of our gutters along the house to collect the ever flowing Washington rain (might as well use some of it other than to make mud right?). We purchased a 550 gallon tank that will hold the rain water to use for animals, gardening and yard stuff, which will then help free up the good, small amount of water for the inside of the house. Heck, with the cisten water, we can ever flush toilets when the power goes out - BONUS!!!
So, we started the cistern project Labor Day weekend 2011. Yeah, I know, you don't have to tell me - it's March. We've been a little busy, but the process starts like this...
It starts will a family-team effort to move the cistern over the fence...
Then it's time to dig the whole. Yeah, it could be above ground, but it looks nicer below ground and with the kids wanting to dig, why not? ;-)
No you gotta putt it in the whole (don't you just love free child labor)
It's in, FINALLY!
and now the hard work starts! TO BE CONTINUED...
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