May 1, post me, pre Linda

Maybe I did a bad thing. Several bad things. No, nothing perverted, get your minds out of the gutter.

I took my winter boots downstairs. Again. Each time so far it's snowed. It has to stop doing that sooner or later. Doesn't it? Then again, it has snowed every month of the year, even August.

I took the snow shovels downstairs to the store room under the stairs.

I got the water barrels set up, since there's a chance of showers this evening. Plus City Council passed a stupid boneheaded bylaw about mandatory water conservation measures that regulate when people can water their lawns. This, while the City loses more than 20% of it's treated water through infrastructure leaks. Another bylaw boondoggle. Don't get me started.

I opened the outdoor taps and set up the hoses.

At least I didn't wash the car and I haven't taken the snow tires off yet. That's on May 6.

This is the state of the garden on May 1, after I got the water barrels set up, and before Linda started cleaning up. She was looking things over, wondering where to start, and thinking she was behind already, but no. There was snow in the back yard only a few days ago. We startled a baby bunny living under the big bag that is covering out patio chairs. It can eat all the grass it wants, but we don't want it chewing on the flowers. The cherry and apple tree are beginning to bud out.

This is all what it looks like, in a documentary sort of way. So many that I'll skip the Of the Day feature.

1. The green barrel is new. It's a collapsable barrel from Lee Valley, source of all sorts of amazing stuff that you never knew you needed. 500 l capacity. It took a while to figure out how to set up, and I hope this works. The plywood is because the bottom of the barrel is the plastic fabric, so I'm thinking it wouldn't be happy sitting on the patio stones. The white barrels are 200 L each. 

2. I used to set the barrels directly on the bricks, but that was a pain in the butt to set up. Plus this gives an extra bit of elevation for the siphoning to work. I hope.

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4. The Barcelona barrel. 375 L capacity.

5. A new post that captured Linda during a shopping trip. This corner of the back garden gets a surprising amount of sun, so it's no surprise the spring plants start here.

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11. The blue vase that we use as a water barrel mainly because it looks so nice, but I've no real idea what the capacity is. Maybe 100 L? I was thinking of putting the collapsible barrel here, but it's really a bit too big for the space, and only a small part of the roof drains into it.

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