My new online-ordered, specially-designed rain barrel arrived yesterday. I love it. If it wasn't $89 (reasonable though it is), I'd order 5 more.It's a beautiful terracotta color, sort of like one of those amphora-shaped jugs you see in underwater shipwrecks in the Mediterrean.
The black snap-on lid has quarter size holes, with screen attached to the back, to keep out small animals, bugs, trash, whatever.
The three connector plugs are along the top, for overflow or connector hoses to other rain barrels. They're all silcone-sealed, built-in, and can be capped or used. On one bottom side there's a bottom drain, and about half-way up, there's another connector for a brass spigot that just screws in. The spigot came with the barrel, and even had the teflon tape already wrapped on it.
But my most FAVORITE part is this stamped label. This barrel is recycled. It's first job was bringing olives and peppers from Greece to the U.S. in the hold of some cargo ship.
The barrel waswashed and cleaned, but you can still smell the faint spicy aroma of the olives,and it kinda makes you want to go out for gyros.
The label says HELLAS, and it has a Trojan soldier picking olives, with some Greek-inspired designs around it.
We've got it installed now, in place of the one we had problems with. I figure coming from Greece, it's used to hot sun. And I may get another one to use on the other side of the garage, just so they match.
Nothing like two Greeks in the hot sun. Two Greek barrels. What did you think I meant?
To get your own Greek in the sun:
http://www.easycart.net/FiresideGallery/50_Gallon_Rain_Barrels.html#TC50snapon
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