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10:50 am
March 15, 2009
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GeorgiaZ
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Gosh thanks Cindy! I NEED more fabric! Like I cant get in enough trouble myself without you pulling me in. I am so weak!
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11:00 am
March 15, 2009
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CindyP
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Georgia, I tried to get that one by you!! Thought you might still be too busy ripping out your hair!!
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Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible. ~ Cherie Carter-Scott
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6:10 pm
March 16, 2009
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GeorgiaZ
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My new/used cistern to water my garden with. We do have to clean out the space it is going to go and get the gutters up. But it is 500 gallons for only 175.00!
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6:47 pm
March 16, 2009
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CindyP
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Holy cats, that's huge!!!!!!!!! But it will be so nice to have the gutters up and pouring into this instead of washing everything out!! 
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Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible. ~ Cherie Carter-Scott
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6:57 pm
March 16, 2009
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beeyourself
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I want to see it full!!!
(If you put that up, we're going to go into a drought here…I just KNOW it!)
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8:17 pm
March 16, 2009
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Pete
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And I was just going to put a big garbage can under a drain spout…
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Anulos qui animum ostendunt omnes gestemus!
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10:49 pm
March 16, 2009
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GeorgiaZ
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Pete, Im going to do that in the chicken pen.
I will not be blamed for a drought! I am just being prepared! But why couldnt I have gotten it up BEFORE all this rain???
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12:02 pm
March 17, 2009
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WV_Hills
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GeorgiaZ said:
Pete, Im going to do that in the chicken pen.
I will not be blamed for a drought! I am just being prepared! But why couldnt I have gotten it up BEFORE all this rain???
If the chickens and the garden have enough left over to share rainwater really does a great job on your hair when you shampoo/rinse — No minerals in rainwater. We had a cistern that filled from a downspout, and had it set up so we could swing the downspout out of the way until it had rained enough to wash the roof clean, then we would swing the spout back over the cistern and collect only the cleanest water. I'm not sure your garden will complain if you include a little dirt with their water though.
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6:22 pm
March 17, 2009
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Georgia – that is some cistern! At the Bishop's house in Galveston Texas, across from the Catholic Church, built in late 1800s – the bath tubs have 3 faucets. Hot, cold and rain water for the women's long hair – cool
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3:02 pm
March 18, 2009
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I have a question, what about the shingles, would using rainwater that ran along the shingles have any thing in it that would be harmful for veggies?? It seems to me that some old shingles were asbestos. I think that needs to be checked out, maybe Cindy can research this.
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3:42 pm
March 18, 2009
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IowaDeb
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I found this infomation on Asphalt shingles.
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Occ…..t-roof.htm
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3:51 pm
March 18, 2009
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GeorgiaZ
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Would not have thought about that one Pete. But I have a tin roof.
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5:36 pm
March 18, 2009
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CindyP
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Holy cow!! I did research this……..and there is a whole internet worth of controversy on using roof rainwater on your vegetable garden!!!
The main thing I got against it is zinc………asphalt (composite) roofs use zinc for moss/mildew prevention. Some metal roofs also contain zinc.
There are others that maintain that the environment we live/breathe in is as dangerous as some of the chemicals that run off of our roofs. Some say you just need to divert the first 25 gallons that run off and you won't have a problem. Some say it is perfectly safe.
My thought would be — if it's a concern, harvest a glass of water, take it to the county health department and have it tested!! If they test it safe to drink, it is safe to water the food I will be eating!
(and I checked, zinc is listed on the back of my multi-vitamin I take daily……..is that a bad thing, I wonder.)
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5:47 pm
March 18, 2009
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Not sure that zinc is exactly the same as used in vitamins. Or it wouldnt be bad. Maybe the level is the concern. Too much of anything except chocolate is usually bad. And no matter what you do there will be pros and cons. Makes for some interesting reading too. My metal roof is 25 years old. Probably needs a new one but this one will have to do for a few years more. The roof on my great grandparents tin roof caught the water they used for everything from drinking to bathing to laundry to garden. I cant go that far, would if I could, but I think this will work for us. With how everything is so scientific now, it really would be interesting to find out just what is on our roofs, and in our soil. Especially since we have had the Alcoa plant here for over 50 years. And have lived within 6 or 7 miles from it for almost my whole life. Lots of asbestosis cancer here because of it too. And my 50 year old house has asbestosis siding on it. on and on and on…
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5:57 pm
March 18, 2009
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CindyP
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I was just joking about the zinc in my vitamin!
And the rest of what you say Georgia is what people were talking about what is in their environment that they live with daily and it's supposed to be bad for them, how can saving water by using roof rainoff hurt them anymore?
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Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible. ~ Cherie Carter-Scott
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6:00 pm
March 18, 2009
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CindyP said:
I was just joking about the zinc in my vitamin!
And the rest of what you say Georgia is what people were talking about what is in their environment that they live with daily and it's supposed to be bad for them, how can saving water by using roof rainoff hurt them anymore?
I agree…I don't think it can.
When we lived in California, there was a test garden…they watered it with human sewage. Sorry…but I wouldn't go that far. My dad saw lots of this when he was in Korea…many, many moons ago.
Which brings up another thought…if you have a dog, watch out…for some reason, they love to sprinkle the onions…
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6:05 pm
March 18, 2009
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beeyourself
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GeorgiaZ said:
My new/used cistern to water my garden with. We do have to clean out the space it is going to go and get the gutters up. But it is 500 gallons for only 175.00!
Anyway…Georgia, I love your cistern! It was a great deal…I think John should slice the top off…and then we can pretend we're the girls in Petticoat Junction…how many of us will it hold?
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6:06 pm
March 18, 2009
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beeyourself said:
Which brings up another thought…if you have a dog, watch out…for some reason, they love to sprinkle the onions…
I've been known to eat tomatoes off the vine, snap the beans and peas and eat them raw out in the garden, but I guess onions are off the menu…
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6:07 pm
March 18, 2009
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CindyP
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Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible. ~ Cherie Carter-Scott
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6:12 pm
March 18, 2009
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beeyourself
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WV_Hills said:
beeyourself said:
Which brings up another thought…if you have a dog, watch out…for some reason, they love to sprinkle the onions…
I've been known to eat tomatoes off the vine, snap the beans and peas and eat them raw out in the garden, but I guess onions are off the menu…
Yeah…me too…but my dad wouldn't let me do that with the onions…because Junior (the neighbor's dog) would "sprinkle" the onions…that was a long time ago…Junior and his sprinkler have gone on up to dog heaven…it must have been the smell that attracted him…dad had to fence them off. I give everything a good spit and swipe before I ingest. Sterilize it…so to speak…
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