Breathing Treatment

22 Dec 0.34" AM This was a gentle evening through early morning rain- the kind that soaks in nicely. 23 Dec 0.05" Just the remn...

19 Dec 0.20" for total of 1.78" this season. The Santa Barbara outpost also reported 0.20". Usually they have more than us...

It was cold and windy last night and we had 0.2" before I went to bed.  Clear skies this morning indicate we're all done with this ...

I re-stacked the bricks. Silly me. I thought that they had to be moved to allow ingress and egress.Time stamps are accurate in these photo...

10 Dec 2015 0.02" It came down heavily for an short time and then just sort of fizzled.  I went out and watered the garden.  More rai...

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 ...

And under my house, too. The current plan is to wake up at 3AM (there's a + 1:12 error in the time stamp on the photos), block the ope...

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 live in a community that was given a 36% water use reduction target by the state.  Since I've always been careful with my water I thou...

We had a storm through last week which got the cold and wet season under way.  Earlier rain in September and October totaled close to an inc...

19 Jul 0.43" 20 Jul 0.20" There's probably some more rain in the near future, but I thought I would note that over a half i...

I was admiring the fog on my Cercis occidentalis When I noticed some leaf damage and a critter. Who's been eating my Cercis? Have some m...

I suspect that the raccoons are to blame for the immense piles of scat that have accumulated on top of my patch of Erigeron glaucus (Seaside...