This is Zenona pitching in last week at the first of many, many days of cleaning and de-funking. What are the mystery orbs in this photo?? Hopefully just dust...Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Cleaning, Part 1 of Infinity
This is Zenona pitching in last week at the first of many, many days of cleaning and de-funking. What are the mystery orbs in this photo?? Hopefully just dust...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Makin' the Big Move - But First We Need Water
This mess of tools, pipes, dirt and rocks is actually the spring source that supplies our house's water supply
. While most modern homes in the Catskills have drilled wells, some reaching depths of 300+ feet, a spring-fed water supply was pretty much the norm back in the day. In order to make our big move to the Fox Hollow House, we have to have water. And water that doesn't run out and doesn't freeze either. Zenka has been working to bring the old water supply system back to life and, hopefully with some improvements.
The first task was to reconstruct a cement holding box around the spring source to capture and corral the water into the piping system that leads to the actual cistern. A cistern is a big holding tank, in our case an underground square concrete block thing that I was standing on when taking this photo. After the concrete was poured we had to muck out the cistern that had been drained earlier. There was buckets and buckets of muddy silty stinky slop...too gross to stop and take a photo.
The water from the newly-poured spring box will fill up the now mud-free cistern, which has a pipe leading to house's system and an overflow pipe that feeds our garden's water system (a whole different topic of needed water supply improvements we will get to before the growing season....). Our spring water has got to be some of the most pure and best-tasting water EVER! It comes from deep in the mountainside and behind our land is thousands of acres of NYS wilderness. We literally could bottle the stuff!
. While most modern homes in the Catskills have drilled wells, some reaching depths of 300+ feet, a spring-fed water supply was pretty much the norm back in the day. In order to make our big move to the Fox Hollow House, we have to have water. And water that doesn't run out and doesn't freeze either. Zenka has been working to bring the old water supply system back to life and, hopefully with some improvements. The first task was to reconstruct a cement holding box around the spring source to capture and corral the water into the piping system that leads to the actual cistern. A cistern is a big holding tank, in our case an underground square concrete block thing that I was standing on when taking this photo. After the concrete was poured we had to muck out the cistern that had been drained earlier. There was buckets and buckets of muddy silty stinky slop...too gross to stop and take a photo.
The water from the newly-poured spring box will fill up the now mud-free cistern, which has a pipe leading to house's system and an overflow pipe that feeds our garden's water system (a whole different topic of needed water supply improvements we will get to before the growing season....). Our spring water has got to be some of the most pure and best-tasting water EVER! It comes from deep in the mountainside and behind our land is thousands of acres of NYS wilderness. We literally could bottle the stuff!
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