Water Harvested!

My daughter blamed our water tank on facebook for the drought in Texas because it hasn't rained since we put in the water harvesting shed. However, last Wednesday and Thursday we had some storms roll through and we anxiously looked forward to seeing if the Austin rain also hit our land east of home. And as we drove up, we were overjoyed to see, WATER!

Our rain gauge recorded 8/10ths inch of rain (our neighbors had 9/10ths). The tank shows 125 gallons of water, but there was about three inches already in the tank from two times we got a trace of rain. As nice as this picture is, we won't see it like this in the future because we wrapped the tank in a black cloth to inhibit the growth of algae.