But his famous quote, "Necessity is the mother of all inventions," kept playing through my over-capacitated brain when I came up with this dandy:
What should we call it?
The Watering Wagon perhaps?
You see, I have this patch of land at the start of our driveway that I insist on planting in (well, is it actually the end of the driveway? I mean, I always thought of the part of the driveway near the road as the "end of the driveway" but now, I'm feeling like that is actually the start of the driveway...well, ponder on that for a while and get back with me will you?). I was doing pachysandra there but ripped it all out in late spring to move a ground cover there that was taking over my flower bed. I forget the name, but it covers fast and has beautiful purple flowers in the spring.
The problem with planting in this section of the yard is there is no water source. For all the years we've lived here (nine now!!!), I have either dragged three hoses to one of the spigots (boy, that word should sure be spelled, "spicket!") on the house, connected them all and then dragged it to the end/beginning of the driveway. Heavy, convoluted pain that was! Or, if I didn't do that, I would fill one watering can up, maybe two if I was feeling strong, or could find one, and walk them down the driveway to water. What a S.L.O.W. process.
Well, lo and behold, after nine years a lightening bolt hit me and the mother of all inventions was staring me in the face as I almost tripped over this wagon in our horribly cluttered garage. The Watering Wagon!!! I rounded up four of our biggest watering cans and the rest has been history. I better hurry up and patent this idea...
(Can you even believe I had three paragraphs of writing on a wagon filed with four plastic watering cans???)
And, if you're really lucky and act fast, your Watering Wagon could come with a two year old helper in the "Me Do It" phase.
To conclude, (hahaha), is a series of pictures documenting some of my Spring prep work for the grounds (hahaha, again). Why? Because a month and a half ago I thought they were interesting and since then they've been on my desktop waiting for the grand posting. However, since then, I've not found them very interesting. Anyway...tonight, they mildly interested me (one more...hahaha!):
This year, in my spare time, (read that as, "yep, procrastinating on bathroom cleaning AGAIN") I finally made new chicken wire cages for my baby trees. Go me!
Every year my in-laws get saplings from maybe the Arbor Day Foundation (?) and pass them on to me since planting 15 saplings on a small city lot probably wouldn't work (the thought though is giving me a giggle). One year (maybe 5 years ago?) they got all evergreens, the size of a pencil and I have about nine still living. They're outgrowing their first set of cages finally (we have all kinds of wildlife out here, they'd be goners without protection), see that guy stretching through the wire? Riveting, eh???
And there we go, all tucked away in his new space with plenty of room to grow up, up, up. Too bad you can't really even see the new cage. Oh yeah, I thought this pic was a good one because look how close that fallen tree got to my little baby. (-; Close call! I have three other trees in the same situation and not a one has been crushed yet. Hoping to keep that streak going!
O.K., enough is enough, here. I've still not been able to figure out the video glitch. Hopefully that'll be fixed soon. I've got the world's worst video of a successful track run ever that I just know you'll want to see, and of course, W's graduation moment. Stay tuned...
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