Quarl 2022-10-22 21:58:43

Life is life, people should embrace their failures and learn from them. I know I have. To answer your water questions, we used a 300 gallon tank on the back of a trailer when we first moved out here. A lot of people out here do something similar. The original home owner had an underground cistern but there was something wrong with it? We never heard back from the original owner so we quickly dug trenches with a rented excavator, dug in three underground cisterns, built a manifold to swap the cisterns to the house... we were very busy last year but water and power were the first projects we hustled.

Normally the surrounding area is drought stricken but there was a lot of rainfall to reclaim this year. At one point last year we topped off our cisterns with a delivery, a few companies will do water deliveries in the summer. Most of our water is deep enough underground that we don't have to worry about freezing. When we top off the underground cisterns it leaves enough room in the above ground cisterns to let the water expand when it freezes. We don't empty the underground cisterns over the winter so we can top them off again in the spring when stuff melts. I was a little worried about it last year but everything worked out.

To be totally honest my fiance is the wizard that engineers everything but it's just the two of us up here so I'm learning everything, helping Tom in case of an emergency. No one plows ours roads when it snows, we're about an hour from town and people go missing in the San Juan all the time. Tom and I are a team. The only thing Tom is doing that I'm not is elk hunting but I'll be keeping track of his location and communicating via satellite phone.

Thank you for taking an interest and participating! The questions keep me on my toes :D

I almost forgot to answer your question about drilling a well. We considered getting a survey but others in the area said it's not worth it. Not a lot of water at our altitude. Also if you drill and find nothing you still have to pay the cost of the drilling. It was less risky to build our system then to sink money on a gamble :)

Quarl 2022-10-22 23:54:37 (Updated 2022-10-23 00:07:04)

Colorado has been awesome, never thought I'd move here. We'll get a couple new chicks in February to help recoup. We didn't have a rooster which can help protect the flock from predators, weve decided we need one. I didn't realize your in Colorado or had forgotten. I don't think I've ever been to Denver, one day Ill have to a show there or something. Sees like you had fun at the Gorillaz :3

Quarl 2022-10-23 08:54:03

I'll try to find my way onto Discord at some point, will share some more nebulas with you. I only picked a few random pics but I refrained from posting familiar clusters like Andromeda because better pics already exist. Tom was getting better when we had to take the dome apart and move, some of the pics just look like a bunch of sand tossed on black paper. Space is so huge that sometimes it takes a minute to process what you're looking at. So many potential realities and worlds. A lot of emptiness, incomprehensible distances. So much work goes into divining those images, this link actually goes over the process fairly well:

https://www.swagastro.com/my-guide-to-image-capture.html