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RE: Walk With Me In Denver: Actifit Doesn't Like Me Again Edition
Yesterday, we went into my neighbour's garden to check how their waterbutt was fixed. They came out to say hello and see what we were doing ... in no time at all it was a waterbutt party!
What in the world is a waterbutt?
+1 for demanding answers to what in the world is a waterbutt and how I too can get in on the party????
Please see my answer to @winstonalden to reveal the mysteries of waterbutts. For the party element, waterbutts are optional (any excuse will do), but you do need sociable neighbours and a handy store of food and drink to offer around. Possibly, if we were younger, the hot weather may have led to some gratuitous jumping into water butts or other water dispersal activities. But as we're older and mindful of hosepipe bans etc, that didn't happen, just "would you like a beer?", "mm, I don't mind if I do ... what do you think of the 300l. Waterbutt compared to the 600l?" And "have you got a hacksaw for the downpipe?"
That is just my kind of party!
Thank you for taking the time, it was just plain ignorance on my party about waterbutts, I probably would have said something like 'That tank that holds all the water from our roof' or something with way too many words.
In terms of any excuse for a party, I'm the neighbor with the fun tools who's not afraid to use them in order to get invited to the waterbutt party!
Cheers Shanibeer!
Let me introduce you to the World of Waterbutts. The one in question looks like this:
But one of the areas for debate was, do we want to plan for this arrangement?
Go for it! Don't butts usually go better in pairs?
Good point!
I too need to know what a waterbutt is! The public wants to know! 😆
I didn't realise it would be so contentious! Please see other replies 😁
Oooooh! LOL. Here we call them "rain barrels." They only became legal in my state last year or the year before. They were banned because in the desert west "water rights" are a hot topic and even though it's much more conservatism to use them, the argument was that if you didn't have water rights to your property, then any rainfall belonged downstream, to whoever had water rights. Which meant that people were draining the aquifer to water their yards so that the rainfall could maybe make it down the sewer? It was really twisted logic.
Sounds about right! I think we call them rain barrels too, in some parts of the country. It's a bit daft, really, even if you had a set of the larger ones, they still wouldn't have sufficient capacity to hold the amount of rain we have in winter ... and in the summer, in a dry spell, they only hold enough for a week or two. In my house they only take the water from the porch roof and the roof over the lean-to. Rainwater from the main roof goes down a drain set in the middle of the roof and running through the inside of the back of the house (in 1973, when the house was built, it was considered an innovation)! I suppose any little helps, though.