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Date Posted: Wed, Sep 06 2006, 19:02:29
Author: This one's from Donna
Subject: Another family email

Between my driveway and my neighbor's front lawn
there's a strip of land that belongs to me, about 18
inches wide, with 4 very mature italian cypress trees
and a bushy thing.

I've never watered them because the neighbor's lawn
watering and the winter rain seemed to be enough for
them. But this year he hasn't been watering his lawn.
At all.

It dawned on me t'other day that those plants could
probably use a drink. So I put the hose end under one
of them and turned it on low. Figured I'd let it soak
a while, then move it on to the mext. But it didn't
soak in at all, just ran off to the driveway. So I dug
a hole for it to fill and soak from. Nope. Filled the
hole and ran off to the driveway again.

So I got out my spoon and like a little kid playing in
the mud I had a wonderful time making a river flow
from plant to plant, with little lakes alongside each
plant. Even with all those places for the water to
soak in, there's almost as much water entering the
last lake as goes into the first. I have to slow the
water way down to keep it from overflowing. And then
of course I have to increase it a bit so the last lake
gets some.

I'll probably spend most of the day resetting the
speed of the water. And dredging out the river where
it decides for itself where it wants to go.

And the trees won't even appreciate it.

Oh well.

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