{"id":41,"date":"2005-05-02T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellerberrin.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2005-05-02T13:43:54","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T05:43:54","slug":"rainwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kellerberrin.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"rainwater, anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The roof is leaking. Of all the places in this vast craft barn, it drips on my left shoulder as I sit at the computer. I shift a foot to the right and place a wine cooler under the leak. This is definitely the rain everyone has been waiting for. <\/p>\n

Anne was on her way to the Co-op to swap over our spring water bottle when this morning’s deluge really hit. Outside the butcher shop, Mark and Toby were trying to stop Pip’s wooden planks from floating away. Toby asked Anne why she needed to go to the shop for water, when it was falling out of the sky. He reckoned the rain water would be great to drink. So she placed the 15 litre bottle under the gutter overflow and it slowly filled up. We stood out there, adjusting its position to best accept the wobbling stream. There were bits of spiders web and stuff floating around in it, from the gutters, but we figured we could filter them out after.
\n
\n\"water
\nwater surges out of the downpipe and into our 15L bottle outside the butcher shop…<\/p>\n

\"rain
\n…but how much can you actually get in that little orifice?<\/p>\n

\"adjusting
\nLucas adjusts the bottle to collect more water…<\/p>\n

\"more
\nit’s a constant process of adjustment…<\/p>\n

We lugged the big bottle back to the craft barn, where we improvised a funnel and filter system for decanting it into a smaller bottle. First we tried with coffee machine filters, and then Anne pulled out an old stocking to speed up the process.<\/p>\n

\"making
\nAnne makes a funnel for decanting the rain water…<\/p>\n

\"decanting
\nAnne decants the rain water…<\/p>\n

\"pouring
\nLucas pouring a glass of Keller’s finest rainwater…<\/p>\n

\"taste
\nAnd now, for the taste test!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the water tasted terrible. Perhaps there had been a birds nest stuck in that down pipe, or it was the spiders’ webs and washed down roof particles. <\/p>\n

\"off
\nSo, then, off down to the shop to buy some more bottled water…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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