The Joys of Good Water Pressure

Occasionally, an anomaly will disturb the universe and a burst of energy will appear in an unlikely spot.  In this case, I was sipping my coffee, oblivious to cosmic forces, when it occurred to me I should hook up the pump and pressure tank (which we have had for a little over a year now) to our gravity feed water system and change our lives completely.  Most of you have probably lived in houses with good water pressure and are blissfully unaware that  the faucets in your kitchen sink, bathroom lavatory, washing machine and shower are designed to dispense adequate amounts of water at 40 to 50lbs of pressure.  At 8lbs of pressure, a gravity fed water system barely trickles.  From a conservation stand point this is fantastic.  From an efficiency stand point, if you are trying to do dishes or fill the washing machine etc., you might as well pull up a chair, it's going to be while. More importantly, since we have more to do around here than we can get done, we could have a dishwasher which would save countless hours spent doing dishes.  (We home can a lot of our food and although 600 jars in the canning cupboard gives you warm feelings of security,  600 dirty ones on the kitchen counter aging gracefully, is hard on your positive outlook on life.)
So, I mentioned that I intended to hook up the booster pump and pressure tank to Kris and she reached over, felt my forehead and  asked "You feelin' OK? This is an Aprils fools joke, right?"
Well despite Kris's underwhelming confidence in my ambition level, after a couple of days, I actually hooked it up, surprising both of us.  I can scratch this one off my bucket list and move onto my favorite part of my next project, planning and buying the parts. I usually have a wild hare and buy the parts and have them so long, when I go to do the project I can't find them.  The corollary to this is I have a large back log of projects in various stages of started with lots of parts stacked around and not enough time to do most of them. 
In my experience, doing the projects causes body pain and mental stress and shouldn't be rushed into.
Well, knowing I have the tendency to put off projects, I have come up with an ingenious motivational technique that works for me. (Feel free to use this yourself.)  I simply wait until things degenerate to such a horrendous condition, that doing the project becomes by far the lesser of two evils.  I find this technique to be so successful that I now use it on almost everything.  In this case, the kitchen counter has so many dishes on it, that it would take way longer to do the dishes than to hook up the pump and the pressure tank then get the dishwasher working again.  See how easy and natural this technique is to use.  It just sort of flows and puts a positive spin in what otherwise would be a dismal situation.
I have been toying with another technique that might be useful to you.  I call it "doing nothing."
I'll give you an example.  Animals, horses and goats in particular,  are hard on everything around the farm.  Gates, walls, fences, feeders, hoses, water tanks etc. are damaged or destroyed on a regular basis.  To take care of all the maintenance, you would need a lot more staff than is walking around here.  So there are some instances, not all, but more than you would think, for which the "do nothing" technique works well.  Our horse Ebony helped develop this technique.  For a good many years she would kick the wall between her stall and Bell's breaking boards and worse she would get her leg caught in the wall and have to be cut out of it.  After numerous incidents and redesigns, reinforcements and nerve racking episodes of running a circular saw next to Ebony while she waited seemingly unrepentant and unconcerned about her leg sticking through the stall wall, I just left the two by tens out of the wall after each episode. In a moment of clarity it came to me that if the boards weren't there she couldn't break  then or get stuck.  She would just have to find something else to do that might be less dangerous.  My favorite episode, and the one that helped cement the "do nothing" technique as one of my favorites, occurred after all the boards, in what I felt was the range she could reach with sufficient force to smash through, had been removed.  This included everything below five feet.  Well much to my amazement, she kicked the fence with enough force to get her foot caught between two boards with her hind end suspended in mid air.  It looked pretty strange to see her other foot off the ground.  Her butt was off to one side and she was slowly twisting to an inverted position which would have left the entire horse hanging form the back wall and snapped her leg.  She didn't seem that concerned about it, evidently believing that by continued application of grandma's shoulder all would just dandy until I could find something to pry her leg out.  Any rational person would have went and got the phone and taken a picture of the horse's butt sitting on Grandma's shoulder appearing to be her head, but that went right by me and I just freed her leg.  I might of thought of it she hadn't been starting to panic (Grandma--not the horse, she never did seem to notice her leg wasn't where it usually was.) The other improvement to this episode would have been to mention to Grandma  when I was about to pry the boards apart.  It evidently kind of jumped her when five hundred pounds of butt and dangling legs came down all at once.  Well live and learn. It proved I can still out run her anyway (Grandma that is--not the horse).

Well anyway, you