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If you have Excel or another spreadsheet program, here's the inputs for a Rain Water Calculator. Column A should be Width of Roof Column B should be Length of Roof Column C should be Area ( A X B = C) or A*B=C Column D should be Inches of Rain Column E should be an equation...

So the weather is real bad right now lots of freezing rain, turning to rain, then turning to snow. They have canceled all school buses. The police are reporting lots of accidents, the 401 is closed. But the schools remain open! I don't understand that I am not walking DD to school in this it...

You can turn any corner of your home into a Reading Corner for your little ones. These "shelves" are actually vinyl rain-gutters, we paid $5.99 for a 10 foot piece at Lowe's. My wonderful husband cut the 10-foot piece into 3 shelves and screwed them to the wall, the third one is going in my...

100% chance of REAL rain tomorrow, not just a few sprinkles or mist! I know I must sound crazy, but it's been such a dry year here, first that heat wave, and we've gone the last 60 days with no measurable precipitation. October is our wet season and we had nothing. We're officially in a...

I got my 1st rain barrel the other day. I was in a different county dropping my daughter off at college and stopped at a greenhouse. What do I see....rain barrels. $15 a piece. It is the standard blue one. I don't care about the color. I am just glad it isn't $100!! Now.....what do I do...

You look out the window and see the neighbor using a snow shovel to remove the water from his lawn. This is just wrong.....

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Is it ever going to stop raining....I live in southeast mo and it has rained here just about every day since last Tuesday or maybe longer ...I am a little water logged...

I have a 1500 gallon water tank that I recently replaced with a larger one. I'd like to use the old tank to catch and store rainwater for use in the garden, but I am stuck as to how to do so. I can't put it near a gutter, because it is so large, it doesn't fit next to the house. Besides, I'd...

Are you a weather watcher? What tools do use to gather your information? Do you keep track? We have a rain gauge that we have mounted on our garden fence placed where there is no overhang so we can get accurate readings. It's a plastic, cone shaped & is manually read. We use it most of the...

It rained all day :( Its feeling like fall - somewhat...so I made a big pot of homemade chili to go with the mood:)..At least I won't have to cook for a few days lol... Fritos/chili/cheese & jalapenos layered in a bowl - YUM:)

My friend at work told me about a place not too far from where I live that had some for sale. I got 2 35gal? ones and 2 of the 55gal ones. They were $10 and $5 each. I am going to cut the top of one of the small ones to plant potatoes in and make a tumbling compost (hopefully soon) from the...

I found a place that sells those big blue empty feed barrels. They only want $20 each. It is a bit of a drive, but much less money than ready-made rain barrels. Does anyone have advice on how to convert them into rain barrels? I will need to make it mosquito-proof and make it so debris...

at least not in my part of town. This summer has been a horribly hot one & while some parts of town may have had a few sprinkles...when the clouds get to my house they scream & run away! We haven't had a drop of rain all summer & now I have lost 2 of the 9 blackberry vines that I planted in...

I find savants quite interesting, and I watched a video on Kim Peek a while ago online. He is an amazing person. I read this article this morning and thought it might be interesting to share. When Kim Peek, the inspiration behind the Oscar-winning motion picture, “Rain Man,” met Dustin...

Mother Nature has been screwing with my garden happiness lately. It's been pretty dry and even with two rain barrels, I had to use the hose at times to water the garden (yuck!). So leave it to me to get all excited when it's forecasted to rain three days in a row... Saturday? Nothing. Sunday...

After my disappointment with my beets, we had a massive storm this afternoon. It brought with it torrential rains, high wind and hail. So much for planting tomorrow. Mine was such a simple plan. Harvest and put up lots of beets on Friday, plant on Saturday, then rain on Sunday. Oh well...

in the garden. DH took some pepper, cucumber and tomato leaves in to have them checked, something is really eating the peppers. Now we have flea beetles and powdery mildew... The beetles love wet cool small plants, the adults eat the top, larve eat the roots. The mildew is from being damp...

It has rained for the past two days. Everything looks so much better. It was starting to get dry and the plants were showing it. Now, after the rain, everything looks one-hundred percent better. The seedlings just coming up suddenly grew overnight. The potatoes will get full benefit of the...

Can't plant the garden, mow the lawn... just need a canoe.