Obsessed with Embellishment

We love using rain barrels - it cuts down on our water bill, plus we can water whenever we want during water restrictions, which happen just about every summer in our town.  During even a moderate rainfall so much water comes off of our garage these two barrels fill up in no time.

One thing we quickly discovered with this method is that water pressure counts, so we really needed to get the barrels up off the ground in order to get every last drop.  John designed and built the stand above in one afternoon with 4 x 4 pressure treated lumber and the galvanized clips you see here.  Everything came from Home Depot.  The biggest consideration was weight; each full barrel weighs 500 lbs. and this set-up is plenty strong enough to hold two more full barrels.  This stand will eventually hold four barrels - we’ll order two more next spring when our town announces the subsidy program.

Today I almost outted someone on a sewing web site! I was so, so close…..fortunately I came to my senses.This person made a thinly disguised snarky comment on a project of mine, and after giving it some thought, I realized that a better way to deal with my miffed feelings would be to blog instead. There’s really no benefit to engaging this person publicly; it’s also not fair to the site operators or to the tens of thousands of people who go on the site every day. Why should they be subjected to our playground spat?What’s really sad is that I used to have a testy but reasonably cordial relationship with her – we disagreed on lots of things, but hey, I’m a big kid and I will zealously defend to the death anyone’s 1^st amendment right to free speech.That said, however, I have zero respect for people who keep their profiles private, who never upload a project and yet just like an untrained dog they leave little poop bombs while hiding behind the veil of anonymity. I’m 99.9% certain this person used to post under a different name, and after several years of reading her posts I’ve come to realize she’s just an angry and bitter person. Alas, I can’t change her – I can only change the way she makes me feel.