Flood Irrigating

Out here in the sticks, sprinkler systems aren't all that common, no matter how much you wish they were. Secondary water is outrageously priced. Where I live water is gold. On Sunday we got to skip church because we had a "water turn." We get the privilege of flood irrigating. It's a pain sometimes and fun sometimes too.

We have a big pipe in the front yard, and we have to connect this plastic pipe to it, then we move the pipe to the part of the lawn where we want the water to go. It's kind of a quick process but definitely a two person job.

Cowboy has the water pipe watering the corner of the lawn and he will remove the section in a bit and direct the water to another corner of the lawn.

The object is to flood your yard entirely so that you won't have to do it again for another week. It gets pretty deep, and the grass will bubble where the lawn really needs it.

We would be fools to wear anything but flipflops!

Irrigating is a family affair at our house, it really is pretty fun, if you ever want to bring your kiddos to play its better than sprinklers!

I'll let you know when we get a water share at a descent time and not 4a.m. Those are never that fun, not even for us!

Springtime in the Sticks!

We had a wind storm recently and my tree broke, I call it my tree, because I am kindred with it. I love to look at at and it comes with so much character. My nieces love to climb on it and my smallest pooch "lassie" loves to climb on it and my goats love to eat from its branches, and birds love to perch in it and.... oh yeah, back to the story. One of the main branches/log fell over (broke) off.

See the damage.

"Lassie" saw the damage and when she saw it she saw a new escape route, have I ever mentioned this dog loves to climb and escape and jump and perch herself up high?

It gave Cowboy a chance to bust out his trusty sidekick aka his beloved chainsaw and they went to town!

Only minor damage was done to this fence, Cowboy tells me he can fix it. You rock Cowboy!

He knows how to work hard and he never complained that I just chat with him while does all the hard work. Check out his arm muscles....Mmmm....

Back off..he's taken/smitten, I gave him that chainsaw.

Sorry pup, I guess you'll have to be more creative if you don't want to be confined, I'm not sure why you try so hard to leave. I try to make it a nice place for you. Someday you just might be content.