spring rain

A couple of weeks ago, Mat set up a rain barrel so that we could collect rain water to water our garden with. We had been talking about doing it all winter, so we did it the first weekend we were back at home. We were really excited to see it in action, but then it didn't rain for a couple of weeks.

It finally started raining yesterday.  Yeah!  The rain barrel has all ready been drained once. It is pretty exciting to see how much water it actually collects just off of half of the roof!  (The garden is also really excited to have some good rain to soak into the soil.)

Summer is on the way. We barbecued out for the first time on Saturday night and we have a couple of hanging baskets out on our porch now!