Yesterday went pretty well, though I am a bit surprised we didn’t come home with any additional books. My new tripod mounted sprinkler, 100′ garden hose, and water pressure booster pump also arrived, so I spent part of this morning getting that set up and started watering the clover field.
While we’ve gotten rain over the past few weeks, it has been sporadic and the small cloudbursts didn’t release enough to wet more than the topsoil and nothing really got to the plant roots. With the raised sprinkler head, it’s now able to clear taller grasses and brush, and the pressure booster gets me enough distance to just move it down the middle of the field.
I did, however, learn a lesson that “hand tight” isn’t necessarily good enough for things like that. When first setting it up and trying to make adjustments, the sprinkler head unscrewed itself off the mount and the next thing I knew, water was everywhere, especially all over me. That’s all fixed now, and I’ve dried off, but it won’t be a mistake I make again anytime soon.
The deer have been coming through more regularly, so I may need to up my defenses. I’m considering getting some of those motion detecting sprinklers (since it seems the contractors around here see a small fence project as beneath them) but need a new spigot installed – not really a new one, the plumbing is installed in the house and it looks like there used to be one there at one point, but I would need the sillcock installed and the fittings pressure tested. I’d also like to have the outside faucets to be rerouted so they bypass the water softener – the well water is hard and leaves a mineral residue, but that is much better than forgetting to flip the bypass lever and literally salting the earth.
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