It is the middle of summer here now, and as usual it has been quite dry. It happened to rain pretty hard today, however, overflowing my 55 gallon rain barrel quickly.

My wife and I are in the process of turning our home in Seattle into a sustainable urban homestead. I decided this morning that I would document this process in my blog. You can expect to see pictures, plans, and hopefully some progress over the coming months.

In Seattle we do receive an awful lot of water from the sky. However, there are a few months in the summer when it is very hot and sunny. People water their lawns, their gardens, etc. A full rain barrel can easily be depleted within a few days if used as a primary watering source.

Water from the city ain't cheap, so I would like to use this rainwater during the dry months. But how to store, how to collect, these are questions that must be answered.