Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

In a nice bit of irony, moving water storage barrels is …well…thirsty work.

The barrels, being new, needed some cleaning 'justin case'. A bucket with a couple gallons of boiling water, a healthy dose of baking soda, slosh around well and -presto- clean smelling…..mmmmmm.. A rinse with some bleach to make sure and we're good to go. Now the fun part.

Set the barrels on the deck, fill, wrestle onto a hand truck, strap 'em down, and haul them down a flight of stairs to the bunker. That was NOT fun but it didnt take long. I have the barrels sitting on top of milk crates to keep them off the floor so I can keep an eye on them. Over the next few days I'll check them periodically to make sure they dont leak. These, by the way, were 15 gallon 'blue barrels'. Thats 120# water in each one.

Discovered that its very easy to goober up the caps that go on these things if your wrench isnt sized perfectly…so, I'm going to head over to Nitro-Pak and order a few spare bung caps (make your own joke) and a better wrench than the one I have now.

On the bright side, in addition to the many 5-gallon containers and cases of bottled water, I now have a couple of nice 15-gallon drums of potable water sitting safely in storage.

Thus did Zero do his Deed For The Day.