Camping was wonderfully...wet!

We're back from a camping trip to our favorite island in the middle of an Adirondack lake. Eight days out of which we had rein on 6 of them. I vowed to write when the weather was bad...that was a good goal. I got somewhere near 100 pages of a recycled marble covered notebook filled with my notes and writings on building a homestead water system. This book is intended for someone that is interested in where their water comes from and how to take control of it, especially if they are building or rebuilding a place to live. I cover wells and how to build/hire one built, how to get the water from the well, water pumps (electric, solar, hand, wind, deep well hand pumps, pitcher pumps, centrifical pumps, human/bike powered pumps, well buckets, filtering, general primer on plumbing, wind powered water pumps, water storage, rain catchement and more).

I've already passed on my scrawlings to an "eager for spending money while she travels in Germany with my wife" high school senior. I will endeavor to have the bulk of the book ready for printing by the end of August. I hope to sell them at the Natural Builder's Colloquium at Thunder Mountain Sanctuary in Bath, NY and at the Pennsylvania Sustainable Living and Renewable Energy Fair. More on these events in a future blog.