Goals!!! Wooooottttt!
Hey! One of my crazy experiments actually worked. I have never had one of these fountain things, But I put in an order to the curbside goddess to manifest a fountain or mini pond and look what happened! Within a matter of maybe a week or so, a near neighbor stuck one out by the curb in front of their house.
The little pump is powered by AC current, which we don’t have an electric outlet outside, but my tiny little generator that we use for keeping phones charged during outages has an AC plug and it’s working great.
i’ve never known how much electricity these things used, but the sticker on the bottom said 120 V AC and 0.23 A, which if you multiply the volts times the amps you get the wattage which is under 30 watts! Not too much of an extravagance for a couple or a few hours a day.
This is a little bit of a mental/emotional win for me because in the past, after securing my wish from the curbside goddess, I would’ve just procrastinated forever on every single step of this, and this little curbside manifestation gem might have sat somewhere in a forlorn location in my yard until I gave up and stuck it back out at the curb for someone else to take yada yada. Thereby perpetuating the cycle. Instead I am breaking the cycle ha ha!
I said to myself, look, the worst that can happen is it doesn’t work, right? Also even if any part of it doesn’t work, things can often be fixed by cleaning.
And also, this cute object can just be a nice decoration even without any water or electricity. Yard decor in my little Sea Grape arbor — AKA the “faery squat” as one friend calls it!
BTW the little generator I’m using to power the pump is recharged by solar panel or shore power, and there are many similar brands commonly available.
This one is a 200 W generator which is enough for anything we need during a power outage — basically, charging our phones and maybe making a little smoothie with the mini blender ha ha. Priorities!
By the way, when my innocent civilian housemates or neighbors witnessing my various activities (ferrying jugs of rainwater here and there etc.) ask what I’m up to, I will often say “Ohhhh, just a little ‘spairmint!! If it goes well you’ll hear all about it — and otherwise I take the secret all the way to the grave!”
Just joking though, as I tend to keep iterating my processes until something works. And I also recognize that there’s value in reporting when things don’t quite work. And on some occasions I will actually decide to scrap a micro mission in order to use various energies more wisely elsewhere. Really tickled that this one is working though!
See pics here (for as long as infrastructure and the will of various tech bro’s shall allow haha).