This is one I had considered when Vintage did their releases last fall. I couldn't find many pictures, but just the name itself was interesting! If I remember correctly, I think I decided against it because I was worried about its hardiness (I usually can grow noisettes and teas, but some don't make it thorugh their first winter; Champney's Pink Cluster dies back to its roots every winter but keeps coming back...though little gal). "Car Wash Rose" is a great looking rose though! Tammy

Hi Kiee, The drout has become much worse this year. I am going to need more rain barrels. Your rain barrels are the best looking that I have seen. I will make one change with mine. I will make my over flow coming from above the barrel so that the barrels will be completly full. The barrels will need a small vent, 1/4 or 1/2 inch to let the air out. If you don't have a wash problem you can let the water just flow out. Other wise the vent will have to be above the over flow. I have a drill pump that I bought at Home Depot for $6.97. It pumps 225 gallons per hour, 3.75 gallion per minute. I pump my water up 10 feet. Works great. I connect my rain barrel to the pump with a washer machine hose. Then the pump is connected to a 50 foot hose. I use a drill that is pluged in to a socket. A cordless drill would have to have the trigger held down with a bag tie some how. Harbor Freight has a drill pump for $2.99. If you are close to them. Do you know where I can get some free or very cheap barrels? Click the link below to see how I will connect my overflow. Here is a link that might be useful: Down spout with overflow

Careful with the coffee grounds. I was bringing home grounds from work for my worm bin, and after a couple of weeks it started smelling like ammonia. This was only with one or two pots worth of used grounds every other day. I was still putting in cardboard and whatnot as well. Now, I only put work grounds in once every other week. The rest go somewhere else around the house.

As a teenager with my first car, a '74 Roadrunner, I was hand-washing that thing all the time. The neighbours swore I'd take the paint off of it. I like the notion of hand-washing and keep telling myself I'll do it, but I haven't yet. We'd run the car through the car wash......hubby liked the do-it-yourself spray ones. I did it recently and thought it was more pia than doing a good job, I was always panicking I'd run out of money before I was done. I put out a request for some car soap on Freecycle. A member who've I've traded stuff with in the past responded. He said he'd give me some, and also mentioned that he does car detailing. He'd wash my car and clean the inside for $20, or give me the shampoo, whichever I preferred. I said 'let's do both!' So I took it in, and he did the outside, the windows, rims, the dash, cleaned the floor mats, wiped down the leather seats, trim, and a light coat of wax. It looked great! So I still have my bottle of shampoo and I have permission for the landlords to do it. I wish there were some shade though. Once we have 'normal' summer temperatures, none of this 30C+ crap, I'll do it. Hopefully I find it as relaxing as I think.