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This is a Test Post

22 May 2007 | Uncategorized  


This is, quite obviously, a second test post. Here I will make sure that things work. For example, I want:

  • To test the excerpt feature.
  • To test archives.
  • To put an image in the excerpt.
  • Etcetera. Etcetera.

To do this, I need to find an image. I also need to fill this space up with text. This is text. Let me go find an image.

Images need work
Apparently the default spacing around images in this template is minimal. I’ll have to fix that. I like a nice buffer around my photos so that they don’t feel crowded. One or more is attached to the house’s downspout; the rest of the barrels are linked to the first ones to collect their overflow when it’s really raining.

Get this: if you have 1,000 square feet of roof surface area, then one inch of rainfall will produce over 600 gallons of rainwater. How big is your roof? I have my rain barrel hooked up to our detached garage (an old carriage house), and its roof is about 300 square feet. If you cut that in half (I’m only getting the rain from half the roof) and do the math, my 60-gallon rain barrel will be filled by just two-thirds of an inch of rainfall. In Oregon, that’s easy! The overflow drains through a tube that I have draped under the boxwood hedge, or I could collect it in a secondary container.

Convenience
Our 3/5-acre lot has a grand total of one outside spigot, right by the house. Watering the far reaches of the gardens (vegetable, fruit, and flower) requires lugging hoses across the lawn and around trees. With the rain barrel at the garage, I can easily fill a watering can or bucket for the flower beds for some quick spot watering. While the gravity-fed flow of the rain barrel isn’t typically enough pressure to power a sprinkler, it would be enough for a short soaker hose. A rain barrel by the patio would be ideal for watering potted flowers and container plants near the house.

There. That should do it.

1 comment so far ↓

#1 Chris P. on 05.23.07 at 11:53 am

Regarding images, if you use classes instead of the align attribute (which technically should not be used), you will notice much better results.

The image alignment classes included with the theme are as follows:

left — aligns the image to the left and wraps the text around it
right — aligns the image to the right and wraps the text around it
center — centers the image and does not wrap text
frame — adds a frame around the image and should only be used in conjunction with any of the above classes

Here’s how it works. When you insert an image in your post, you’ll need to switch to the code view and add class="x" (where x is one of the classes above) to your image declaration.

A sample might look like this:

<img class="right" src="..." />

To add a frame, simply add another class, like so:

class="right frame"

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