Monday, March 10, 2008

Our water tank

Yay - on Thursday last week we finally got our water tank installed :-) So exciting!! Now we just need it to rain and fill it up :-) But at least we can get started planning our vege patch and getting the soil in the area ready :-)

So here are a few pics of the tank. It is a 9000 litre tank so is pretty big. But this way when it doesn't rain for months over winter we should still be able to water our vege garden. Plus we can do things like wash Paul's bike, wash the car any time :-)

The view of the water tank from the gate. It nicely matches the colour of the house & carport roof and the battens covering under the house.
Also as a side note - don't you love the purple flowers on our neighbours tree! So nice! The pink one on our side is just finishing flowering and now we have the purple flowers to enjoy out our kitchen window! I love it!!

The view of the water tank from the back yard. It's dug slightly into the ground and has a base of crusher dust mixed with a bit of concrete dust to keep it stable :-)
Our vege patch will be on this side of the water tank probably in line with the right side of the tank and go right to the fence. Then I'm going to put a really nice paved path running down the side of the tank and vege garden. Yay for plans!! I can't wait to do it all! Although we do need to figure out how to get rid of that tree stump - it's very strong and Paul has had no luck so far! Lance has offered to chain saw it out so that'll be our next step I think!
It was about the point Paul took this photo that those snotty nosed kids from down the road walked past the front of the gate. Good timing aye - just when Paul has the camera out again!

The view of the tank with the car in the car port. In the last few days before the tank got installed the picture of the tank in my head grew to massive proportions and I was so worried it was going to look crazy. So I was very glad to come home from work and have this be my first view of it!! Very reasonable! So it should be for $3000!!!!!! Yay for council/govt rebate schemes though as we get $1000 of that back.

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