Breathing Treatment

Bad Mom Good Mom sent me a link to an article on rain barrel legislation in Colorado. It's a quick but balanced perspective. Full URL b...

Here's a "rainwater colander", an inline downspout rainwater diverter, a product I first stumbled across at my Home Depot whil...

I saw a rain barrel a week ago that appeared to be completely justified by local weather and usage patterns.

I'm sure I left you dangling in a previous installment with the question of how rainfall intensity affects the usability of surge tanks....

In order to answer questions that I have about how large a surge tank is needed to accommodate a certain number of local storms, we need to ...

In this post I'm trying to estimate the usefulness of a rain barrel operated as surge tank.  The valve is open all the time when a...

 I received a few electronic solicitations to get a free rain barrel from my local water district which I promptly ignored.  As I've no...

I've received 8.35" of rain in my back yard this year.  Since I have a few years worth of data on rainfall in my back yard, and dec...

I'm looking at arbor / pergola and trellis designs that I like and collecting them over on Pinterest. Follow Brent's board Arbors ...

Someone else has cottoned to the fact that rain barrels are a gyp. Though I've not previously heard of Owen Dell, he seems to be a well-...

Water is too cheap! A little further down in the blog when I conclude that rain barrels are only the leading edge of a water public relat...

You are a rain barrel stud, but you're beginning to feel a slight unease. Your sense of equanimity is a little disturbed because you...

I've previously talked about the kind of collection efficiencies that rain barrel users can expect.  They are typically dismal unless yo...

In earlier posts I first exposed the cult of the rain barrel as a marginally efficient sop to green guilt but then had an Ah Ha moment in t...

In a previous post I calculated some optimum efficicencies for rain barrels in sizes of 55 gallons and 110 gallons   in support of my feelin...

You are a rainwater stud or studette! You are such a rainwater stud that you operate your rain barrel in a way that any time there's a ...