You may recall a recent humorous post involving a chicken and a midnight phone call. Well, here is part II. (It is probable there will be more sequels...)
7:20 pm at sister's house: Oh, we have plenty of time to eat dinner and get home to do the irrigation!
7:45 pm, leaving sister's house: No worries, we have an hour.
8:00 pm at home: Casual glance out the window reveals surprise: water has arrived more than 40 minutes early!
8:05 pm back yard: 97-year-old neighbor calmly informs us that he knocked on our door and, receiving no answer, simply took the water for us. He does, indeed, have a good heart. Despite his broken wristwatch.
8:10 pm back yard: Attempts to contain and control the fast-flowing flood waters futile.
8:11 pm back yard: Attempts to contain and control the fast-flowing flood waters discontinued.
While most definitely not making light of the devastating floods in the Midwest, here are some pictures of our soggy fun.
Ok, ok, so this is actually intentional flooding...
This, however?
Not so much.
3 comments:
Ok you are going to have to explain how irrigation works there, cause I have no idea....we have underground sprinklers that go on every night at 8 pm...
Basically, the water from the canal comes in ditches to each yard. In our case, we don't have sprinklers in the back yard, so we flood the whole yard to water it. We usually have a "dam" that we put up to prevent the water from flooding our patio...unfortunately, we hadn't put it up when our friendly neighbor sent the water to our ditches early. We also have a garden (or weed patch as the case may be) that we try to send water down little ditches or furrows to our plants (or weeds). We try to contain the water into those furrows as much as possible. The last picture shows that it wasn't working too well. Sorry for the long, boring explanation.
Ha Ha Moley, that picture is like New Orleans after Katrina on a small scale.
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