Rainbarreling World Water Day

Monkeys in Design

It's World Water Day and there is a fierce viscosity of my daughter's favorite CD running through my head! It's a  song called H2O by Moona Luna. It's part of a CD called Science Fair that is an amazing collection of hip, educational, science-related songs.

Thanks to the City of Oakland's Rain Barrel program, we got in on a fabulous thing last year and the rain barrel went in earlier this year. We're in the process of adding monkeys holding umbrellas to make it a little less ugly and match the whimsy of the child gate at the top of our stairs. I'll add a photo when it's done.

I can't think of a better way to celebrate World Water Day 2013! We reduced our consumption by upgrading toilet seals, installing a drip system for our yard and replacing all our grass with dymondia. Clothes washer and dryer, y'all are next, budget permitting.

Finished Rainbarrel of Monkeys

Here is a great web site from Wholly H2O of resources and information about harvesting rainwater and other water solutions.











Here are some amazing things happening back there:

Fruiting & flowering oranges

The orange tree is covered in these amazing blossoms and they smell like gardenias (and Hawaii!).

A sea of Meyer lemons!

We've been making juice and lemonade like crazy! Here is some infused with some Capay Valley blood oranges in our Jeremy glass:

Happy nectarine doing the spring dance:

Here is a parting image in honor of World Water Day 2013:  girls at sunset by Lake Temescal in Oakland.