It's raining, Hooray

Seems an odd thing to be happy about.  



view from front door.   Water view today is mostly clouds.

 I have spent the last couple of days draining the dam in anticipation of doing some earth work around it.   Today it started filling again.   not really very helpful as I'm picking up the mini machine this afternoon.   The Hire place does a weekend deal pick up Friday and return on Monday morning.    Its costs only slightly more than  a day rate,  and because this weekend is the Australia day long week end,  i get it for an extra day at no cost.   I might use the machine to breach the dam today to enable it to drain a bit.

The reason I am happy it is raining is that rain is our water supply.  The rental house has one water tank.  It is a 5000 gallon (about 20000 lts).    It was full when we moved in.   It has not rained in the last 4 weeks and the landscape is very dry.  

We have been in the house 15 days now an have used 1/3 of the water in the tank.  This equates to about 7000 ltrs in 14 days or about 500 ltre of drinking water used a day or 100ltrs per person per day.   This is better than what we used to use in Mt Martha,   admittedly I am on holiday and this equates to a holiday from hygiene.

A quick bit of maths ( thanks to MetaCalc)   5000 gallons H20 should last us 5.7 weeks before we run out if there is no rain.   I'm pretty sure it will rain again sometime,  probably next time I have some outdoor work planned.

gaz