I THOUGHT I LEFT THEM BEHIND IN CALIFORNIA

Friday, November 05, 2010

Off and on over the years while living in Northern California I had to contend with problems with our automatic watering system. You know the kind of thing. Somebody stumbles over a bubbler and breaks it, pvc pipe springs a leak. Many times it's a "quick fix" but other times it's a mess---muddy water, mud, sore back.

We also need an automatic watering system here in the sunny, rainless, desert. 

For over twenty years I have sat around reading, watching television and not crawling around on the ground "playing" in mud. I have been a happy old man.

While I was sitting around doing little or nothing, my little olive tree grew bigger and bigger and spread out big roots. The pvc pipe that used to run by a little tree is now buried under a huge tree.

And yes it did spring a leak. And no I cannot get to it to repair it. And I do hate laying on the ground and crawling around on rocks.


Call a professional? Not yet!

I'm cutting that pipe and capping it off!


You remind me there will not be any water running through that line. True!


Who cares. We live in the desert. Let those two or three plants tough it out like the rest of us.


If their Master can get away from reading and watching television he may take mercy on them and "shoot" them a few drops of water by hand. Hey, he's been going to the gym. He's capable of a few physical acts. Not many. But a few!