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Rainy Thursday
Feb. 6th, 2014 10:07 amI'm very close to having a full complement of rainwater. I can only store 300 gallons, for my avocado tree, that cannot survive with hard well water. I was googling cisterns, and they're 10,000 gallon concrete tanks, often below ground. It would be a big hassle to have to rely solely on rainwater.
I'm reading "Quartered Safe Out Here", a WW2 autobiography about a 19 year old British soldier fighting in Burma. He describes it as the last echo of the old British colonial army; the 19th century army of Kipling.
He writes from the perspective of an ordinary soldier slogging through the jungle in a squad of 10 men, armed with a bolt action Lee-Enfield rifle and two hard grenades. He saw a lot of combat, as the Japanese soldiers never surrendered. He had good things to say about the Gurkha soldiers that fought alongside. He describes one battle where they were attacking the Japanese entrenched in a wooded area, and once the British forces made it to the tree line, the Gurkhas dropped their rifles and went in to engage the enemy armed only with their long Kukri knives.
I'm reading "Quartered Safe Out Here", a WW2 autobiography about a 19 year old British soldier fighting in Burma. He describes it as the last echo of the old British colonial army; the 19th century army of Kipling.
He writes from the perspective of an ordinary soldier slogging through the jungle in a squad of 10 men, armed with a bolt action Lee-Enfield rifle and two hard grenades. He saw a lot of combat, as the Japanese soldiers never surrendered. He had good things to say about the Gurkha soldiers that fought alongside. He describes one battle where they were attacking the Japanese entrenched in a wooded area, and once the British forces made it to the tree line, the Gurkhas dropped their rifles and went in to engage the enemy armed only with their long Kukri knives.
