s e v e n i s a j o u r n e y

To my great surprise, it has been raining the last two days. Why, you ask, am I surprised? Well, on Friday I finally got around to plumbing the new 22.5 kL water tank into the system. (after a false start when a fixture leaked and I had to search for a better brand- and replacing it involved crawling in and out of the water tank repeatedly. I can, just barely, fit through the hatch.) So, I figured that was a great way to get the rain to stop. Most people get their tank water by piping the roof water over, while we are spring-fed. We had heard that the spring stops during long dry periods, which is why we wanted a new larger tank (as opposed to an old leaking 3 kL concrete tank). But with the rain the flow from the spring went way up, and we filled the whole tank in about 30 hours! Very exciting, as we now have enough water that even if it stopped raining until Fall, we would probably be okay.

One of our goals is to try and do something exciting every weekend, something worthy of a good blog post. I don’t think we quite managed that this weekend. Tam spent many hours working on the new door for our Yurt. I quested about for water-tank plumbing fixtures that were actually water-tight. On Sunday we had our first rehersal for The Two Sisters, which is coming up in less than two months. The next Big Thing is coming up next weekend, when we go down to the South Island for the “big” SCA event, Cantebury Faire. It should be fun, and in the meantime we have lots to do to get ready as this is our first SCA camping event in many, many years. Hopefully we will have much more to report when we return.