We got the rain barrels set up yesterday morning: leveled the ground, set down concrete blocks to put the barrels on, and diverted the gutters. Just in time too: yesterday afternoon's rain filled both barrels. Woo!
The only problem so far is that the screen the water flows into is kind of raised up in the center of the lid. So the lid fills up with water that can't drain. We're talking about either covering the whole lid with a screen to keep mosquitoes out, or putting one of those anti-mosquito donuts in each and seeing if the birds will use it as a bird bath.
After setting up the rain barrels we went to a delightful wedding. The bride designed and made a spectacular dress, the groom cried all the way through his vows, the maid of honor sang "I'm Sticking With You Cause I'm Made Out of Glue" by Velvet Underground, and the reading was from Plato's Symposium, the part about how humans were originally round, with eight limbs and two sets of sexual organs, and then the gods split man in half, and now we were all searching for our other half. And the cake was fantastic (we think they used the same baker as D. and S.), and the reception music was (in part) provided by me! It was a wonderful time. Nice to see two such cool people be so happy.
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