Posts by Studer SL

21) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word link 2 (Message 19218) Posted 24 Jun 2006 by Studer SL Post: Vader (begins with "In")
22) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : What's playing on the stereo? (Message 19217) Posted 24 Jun 2006 by Studer SL Post: And I'm still listening to Roger Waters - The Wall, Live in Berlin. umphreys mcgee - Intentions Clear
23) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word link 2 (Message 19213) Posted 24 Jun 2006 by Studer SL Post: Java (see here.) VOLCANO!
24) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word link 2 (Message 19184) Posted 23 Jun 2006 by Studer SL Post: therapy TGIF!
25) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word link 2 (Message 19176) Posted 23 Jun 2006 by Studer SL Post: Shock!
26) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word link 2 (Message 19174) Posted 23 Jun 2006 by Studer SL Post: Genesis
27) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Off Topic - 12v pump and timer (Message 19161) Posted 23 Jun 2006 by Studer SL Post: When I lived in the city, I used two 35 gallon pickle barrels attached to the downspouts in the back of my house. I put them up on 6" cinder blocks and the kids painted them with funky flowers and stuff. At the bottom of the barrel, I cut and glued in a faucet so I could attach a hose and water the flower garden using gravity. The driving force behind this was NOT to use CITY WATER to water the garden. I couldn't use a spray nozzle (or my thumb), 27" of water in the barrel equaled only a couple of pounds of pressure, so I just moved the hose around in the garden. Since I was using the spigot to control the flow (the human element!), the barrels would overflow sometimes. That makes for skeeter heaven! There are some pretty good mechanical timers on the market that just screw into a faucet and require no electricity at all (MELNOR). They are based on time or water flow and cost around 20 duckets. It would be nice to have one that would measure pressure so you could keep the barrel topped off without overflowing and also be able to water for so many minutes a day. I don't know what the pressure drop across those new fangled soaker hose thingies are but you could take an old garden hose and punch a bunch of large holes with a nail or something. Use regular hose to get where you want to water, and then attach a piece of 'soaker' hose. Depending on the area you're watering, 70 gallons isn't much if it doesn't rain frequently so 'soaking' would be the way to go. I put screens in the gutters where the downspouts came down to prevent leaves and sediment from getting in the barrels and clogging up the faucet. I was thinking along the lines that you were, until the price tag got up to a hundred bucks, and it wasn't simple anymore. Hope my experience helps!
28) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Totally off-topic stuff - peace/war/politics... (Message 18743) Posted 15 Jun 2006 by Studer SL Post: "Free trade stops wars." Prosperity, when lacking, leads to all sorts of bad things ... Interesting statements. Free trade needs an infinite realm of like minds to exist. Times have changed, methods have changed, but humanity has not changed much. Why invest buckets of money in weaponry and tactics of war when you can accomplish the task with money alone? Isn't that the real reason for prosperity?

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