Tanked

During my daughter Vanessa's recent visit we did some fun things like playing in the Blanco River, watching Ironman 2 in Wimberley's outdoor walk-in theater, and visiting a lavender farm & gift shop a few miles away.

In the "almost as much fun" category, we relocated the water tank gunk separator, a device which takes in the initial water runoff from the roof so that the nasty parts like dust and leaves don't make it into the main tank. This involved draining the 150 gallons of water in it, cutting out the existing plumbing (first photo) and wrestling the tank to its new location (second photo). The point of all this effort was to get the tank under the new arbor with the main tank (third photo), so that once we build the arbor screen wall all the ugly mechanical works will be hidden from sight.

Vanessa and I ended up a bit more hot and muddy than I had planned, but how many other father-daughter teams can say they successfully relocated a water separator together? Oh, and we did it on a weekend celebrating her birthday a few weeks

early. She was a great sport seems to have actually liked the experience, but it was an ever better experience for me to have her there helping. Happy birthday Vanessa, I'll bet you can't wait to see how we celebrate next year, huh?