flowerweaver
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Here it is in the foreground and background, with Gilbert and the outdoor shower project.
Drought tolerant ground cover
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Here it is in the foreground and background, with Gilbert and the outdoor shower project.
Smart Red
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That is going to be so neat . . . as long as the house in the background is yours. I would have problems with neighbors that close unless you have plans to completely cover the structure with vines or such.
Carol Dee
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Better wear a bathing suit!
Carol Dee
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I could so live with that. As it is we have very little grass. Mostly clover, creeping charlie and plantain. That would look nice and lush.
flowerweaver
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Red, that's actually my greenhouse in the background. However, my neighbor's house is now in full view behind it after the tornado took out a lot of our trees. Once we build the new greenhouse we'll have shower privacy again. Meanwhile, I'm going to be adding a trellis, vines, and curtains. The shrubs screen it from our house, and the opening is onto our private woodland so we aren't flashing anyone. This is a solar shower.
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It looks great and sounds fantastic. Here on my 30 acres, it is easy to avoid flashing anyone other than a chicken or cat from time to time.
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Solar shower how hot does the water get, how long does hot water last? When I was 19 and in my 1st apartment I was dring off after a shower and glanced out window. lady next door was boldly standing in window watching me. Today I get out of shower neighbors pull their shades and draw their curtains, middle age
flowerweaver
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Scaldingly hot--it comes directly from black hoses piled up on our storage shed roof in full sun. We finally had to plumb some cold well water in so we could mix the two. There's enough for both of us to take one shower each by day's end. We use it a lot in the summer.
Carol Dee
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Beekissed
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Thanks!!!! I so needed a laugh for this day!!!
My mother pulls the blinds in her bedroom at night and I always ask her why? We live way out in the boonies, a half mile back from the hard road and no neighbors can spy our house...too far away and wrong angle, not to mention acres of woodland between, there is about 5,000 acres of woodland behind us where her windows face...not to mention our dog, who would bark at intruders. She says she just doesn't want anyone looking in. She's 80. I'll grant ya, she's still pretty stacked for an old lady, but something tells me that she's safe from peeping toms.
I don't even have blinds on my bedroom window....I figure if they hike this far back in the woods after dark, they deserve everything they get when they look in that window and see me dressing. That will be the LAST TIME they ever do that, I tell ya!
