Rain!

  According to weather-guessers we think we got around 9 to 10 inches over the last week rains!  My 500 gal rain tank and 2 55 gal barrels are (were) topped the first night!  Yard needed a good drink!  Our creek isn't raging, but it is definitely moving some water!  Glad for the break, wife can sink some bulbs now!
  Our new kitten Biskit (From Fresno) has never experienced rain and it was fun to watch her reactions to the wet[emoji16]
  Shana, our other seasoned cat, doesn't care about the wet one way or another!


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Rain barrels are something I am going to try in the future.  If they fill up it just overflows?

 
  Yep.  You can connect a hose for the over flow and direct it somewhere.  I simply added 1 1/4  pvc with a 90* elbow and enough straight pvc to reach near the ground right out of the top side of the barrel the over flow isn't going to erode anything.  Don't forget you'll need to screen the inflow for debris and mosquitoes
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I'm sure biskit and Shana love the rain water over the tap water too

 
  Our princesses are spoiled they don't get tap water.  Ever. Thanks to wife, they get bottled or filterd (Pitcher) water.  We did put a tiny bird bath out in front yard and Shana does drink out of it regardless of what may floating in it!

best guess is that our area of Bonny Doon got 10"+.
 I only have a 250 gal catchment tank and it was full by Friday night!
Saturday morning I found a drowned rat on the top of it. Ew!

My only issue was that after the storm there was so much redwood duff blanketing the driveway that my 2wd pickup spun out. I had to park below and clean the drive before I could pull up to the house.