there is one thing that happens in my home every winter. when the temps drop to freezing or below, the kitchen faucet has to drip. yep...any and every time. a week or so ago, it had to drip for 4 days straight. after the first year or two, it made me wonder how much water i was wasting.
last year, i collected as much as i could and would use it to water plants, cook and clean stuff. since i have to sleep with a cpap, i use a lot of distilled water and had collected a lot of the gallon jugs. so, when the freezing began, i started my collection.
i use this funnel and container to collect and then pour into the gallon jugs. so far, i've collected about 30-40 gallons total (maybe a little more). the photo below is just part of the collection. when i realized how much i was accumulating, i started numbering them so that i use them in the order collected. i even went so far as to pull out my old britta pitcher and filters so i can drink it, too. it's absolutely crazy how expensive our water is and i just couldn't stand to see all this just go down the drain.
just a little way i try to do my part for our environment...

how i start my mornings... my journal, an oracle deck and on this particular day a lovely cup of peppermint hot chocolate (it's usually a glass of water, but it was reallyyyyyyy cold that morning).
anywho...how are you all fairing during the apocalypse? i'm keeping my head in my heart as much as i can and doing whatever i can to keep myself from going insane.
well, that's all for today. i'm hoping to share some photos of my living area soon (i found a place for the tree! it's going to stay up year-round and be a seasonal tree). i've rearranged and managed to get my art area set up more to my liking and also in a more useful manner.
thanks for sticking around...
love & kisses & magical wishes...
~*~
1 comment:
Very wise of you to collect the dripping water so it doesn't go to waste! I assume the taps have to drip in order to avoid freezing. We don't have to do that in Canada (where it's below freezing for many months at a time) because we insulate our pipes.
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