by John Pitney | Sep 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
**This is the 3rd post in a series on our rainwater system. Read Part 1 and Part 2*** Returning to our conversation about rainwater, we know 45,000 gallons of rain runs off our roof during an average rain year, and 55,000 this year. Let’s say our household uses 5,000...
by John Pitney | Aug 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
**This is the 2nd post in a series on our rainwater system. Read Part 1*** Do you know how many gallons of rainwater you could catch off your roof in a year? Any idea how many glasses of water that would fill? One square foot of roof catches .623 gallons every time...
by John Pitney | Jul 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
In the day the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb had sprung up—-for God had not caused it to rain on the earth—and there wasn’t yet a human to till the ground…a mist went up from the earth and watered...
by John Pitney | Jun 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
This is the year of weddings for our family. Nephew Tim and Amanda got it started May 20 in Boise followed by all four of ours, Joel & Laura, and Erin & Amy (forthcoming in September)…the ones who joined our clan by birth, the ones they choose to love and the...
by John Pitney | May 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
On April 29, with 200,000 others, I marched in the 2nd People’s Climate March in Washington DC to mark President Trump’s 100th day. It was something I couldn’t not do. We have a national environmental justice network emerging within the United Methodist denomination...
by John Pitney | Apr 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
I love this picture of Jessi and I holding the bags of nails we pulled from the boards of the house we deconstructed here. I always hated pulling nails. It was the bane of my young existence growing up on the farm. Our dad was the king of pullers, a hard enough act to...
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