Hello again,
Yesterday I went to update my blog and was dissapointed to find out that Blogger was doing a scheduled maintenance and I was not able to log in. The blog was "read only" so I am hoping it was available still if anyone tried to view it. So that is why I didn't post yesterday.
For this post, I am thankful for Rain Barrels. The first reason is that they collect good water for the plants and I can avoid using well water. Our well water isn't really healthy for us or our plants because it is "slightly corrosive" among other things. The only way we can drink that water is putting it through a filtration system. For the plants, we could use the filtered water but it would use up too much of it and straight well water does not do any favours for the plants. Our well water kills some plants and leaves others struggling. So we use rain water which is a much better alternative to any tap water-not just ours. Our plants thrive when they get rain water because of the useful stuff like bacteria in the water that the plants like. So I am thankful for rain barrels because they collect and store the rain water for me to use! We don't have a rain barrel that we bought from a store but actually just have a barrel under the spout to collect the water. We got so much rain last year that we actually stored in a larger barrel which we had in the shop so we could continue to use it as long as it lasted. We are actually still using rain water from last year. lol The plants really do alot better when given rain water. I suppose this post is a mix of being thankful for rain barrels and rain water. Both are very useful especially with water being a limited resource. So this is why I am thankful for rain barrels. :)
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