Memory Lapse

[poliphilo]

I did it again.

Stuck the hose in the horses's water butt, walked away and thought about other things for a hour or so. I haven't been keeping tally but I think that's probably the fifth or sixth time.

It's only the field that gets flooded but even so I hate it that I'm wasting water...

Comments

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Yes, the waste of water is what would really make me upset besides the fact that here in Spain it's a very expensive commodity.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We're not exactly short of water here. In fact today we've had a lot of it fall out of the sky for free.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Well, Spain doesn't always have that kind of luck.
:)

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

My smartphone has an alarm/timer/stopwatch thingie on it. I use it for things like that -- when I remember.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I could do with something like that.

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

I'm lucky enough that I only water my garden - and I water it with water from a well in my garden, so basically it's more or less a question of recycling. (But since my waste water goes into a drain in the fields around my garden it also means that everything I pour down the drain goes into the same aquifer - so that's a very concrete way of making you very conscious of what you pour down the drain, since it will literally end up in your drinking water 20 years from now...)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

What goes around comes around.

One of the good things about owning a bit of land is that it nudges you into thinking ecologically.

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

It has definitely changed the way I clean my home - I use a LOT of vinegar instead of many of the more complex cleaning agents. (It also means I produce less than one regular shopping bag of trash each week since I can now compost most of my refuse. This actually came as a surprise for me - it's not something I've made a conscious effort to achieve!)