Showing posts with label Sprinkler System. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sprinkler System. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

May 2023...The Month That Was


 In a few hours (our time...) the month of May--2023 version--will be over.

Strange how time flows differently a times. Before the month began, June seemed so far away. It's the month when our daughter gets married, the month when school for our youngest ends. Back in April...oh, we had so much time.

Tomorrow, June begins.

Time is slipping away, and the rock is rolling faster and faster.

It was a great month--frustrating a times--but great. One project we had to complete was fixing our sprinkler system. The old controller bit the digital dust so I thought replacing it would be no big deal. Let's just say, I know so much more about sprinkling system controllers than I did before. As June hits, we can, with a simple push of a button, activate the entire system from our phones...isn't technology wonderful?

Another sign of life returning in the wide valley are yard sales. When we first moved here a few years back, we saw almost no yard sales. I guess we just didn't know where to look. Now, they're all over and we've taken advantage. Last summer we bought so many things to decorate the house and yard at these sales. We thought we may continue the tradition, but this year--so far--we've had to be more discerning. There's a wedding to finance, you know.

May is almost history. June is just around the corner. It will be a month like we've never experienced.

I hope we're ready.

Sunday, May 2, 2021

Give Thanks...Modern Machinery


Yesterday I spent the morning and afternoon in the yard, and because of an incredible machine, we only needed one half of one day to pull all our sprinkler pipes. Those of you who have put in a sprinkling system before (or even if you haven't...) might be thinking, "Big deal. It should only take a few hours."

Um...not where we live.

We live in the Rocky Mountains. The hill on which our house sits isn't exactly a mountain, but it's definitely full of rocks. Last fall I watched our across-the-street neighbors hire a crew to put in their sprinklers. Those poor workers. They trenched, then had to shovel-dig the rest of the way for their PCV system.

We decided on something different.


We hired a neighbor's John Deere 60G.

It worked AMAZINGLY well. We hooked up the pipes to the claw The claw dug into the ground pulling the pipe, and the 60G backed up moving rocks and boulders out of the way as the pipe reached its destination. In a few hours, we were done.

It would have taken at least a day with a trencher, and a month with shovels and picks. Even though I did a lot of shovel digging yesterday, and I was exhausted by the day's end, I am so grateful for modern machines and the incredible people who created them. Literally life saving.