Alright a few surprise projects happened today after Canada Post failed me with setting up some parcels today so I gotta try again tomorrow. Not impressed at all.
So to remind y’all here’s the top of the Chinese Elm tree after I hacked off it’s tops.
The pile of tops:
The inspiration came like a 
as I dragged one long branch out to clip into the fire-pit…
…and Mrs P and I using a fuck load of quick ties later we attached all the tops to the t-bars on the property line I installed to continue to make the living wild 
fence and now they have a lot more natural material to grow up and into!
I spray painted all the cut ends because I really do not want these cuts rooting. Chinese Elm are a pain with how fast they can get so while I’m okay with 1 on the property I will kill any one that fucking dares.
Once we finished this I ran off to take my niece to her mid-day appointment which she did enjoy and was surprised to find a chocolate chip cookie sitting in her seat when she got back to the car.
Just as her appointment was ending though a buddy got in touch responding to my needing help with anyone with a truck. He’s an electrician and turned out to be working in the area so could help when he was done.
Turned out that everything aligned perfectly; the seller for what I needed a truck for was available right after my friend completed on site AND NOW I HAVE THIS!!!
1000L rain tank
The 208 litre barrel has no lid so I can quick fill either 5gal buckets or 2gal watering cans. I’ll fill it from the tank as with any other of the other barrels through the backyard.
I made sure to do some research regarding where I bought this from as many people lie about the contents with these.
I bought them from a candy gummy manufacturer and the seller specifically left on all the original contents labels when imported as an added insurance for us users that it was never something like motor oil or some other product you absolutely do not want used with any plants that you intend to consume.
Gummy factory + tapioca totally checks out.
Now I need to clean this thing out a little, build a cap for the top opening, and get an attachment that’ll let me connect a garden hose to the big-ass spigot on the bottom of the tank and I’m rocking more water than I prob would need.
But it’s never a problem to have excess controlled water resources available when you have 3 ponds and a shit tonne of plants.
And because the buddy that helped me get this thing to my house is a huge air-soft player I’ve decided to throw some coin at getting some decommissioned military surplus camouflage netting to cover the whole thing up.
Friend Visiting: “Hey nice water tank!”
Me: “What water tank…?”
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