Surprise & Solution

There are a couple of before and after photos.  The top of each pair is yesterday, and the bottom is today.

Yesterday I took the photo of the broken pipe.

I went to Fillmore to get some PVC fitting to fix them.  I got the wrong part and wasn't able to fix it.  Instead of making another trip to Fillmore, I found some pieces and was able to plug it. The next trip to Fillmore I will get the right piece.

The ball valve broke.  I could have unscrewed it, but I cut the pipe below the valve thinking that the pipe froze and broke.

I found a valve in a nursery tub that had a lot of parts. I could have screwed it on but I cut it off.  There were a couple of adapters that worked that I glued together

Carol answered the phone. Dan Speakman was on the other end.  The new TV that I ordered last week.  I drove to Fillmore.  I got some glue, Teflon tape and the needed PVC piece.  It was the wrong size.  I then picked up the TV.  It was a little smaller than the one that we have.  Before I got out of town, I turned around and took it back.  He was good about it.  I offered to pay a restocking fee.  He didn't need that and he reversed the credit card charge.

The three foot stem that held the facet broke off.  I think that it was hit when some trees were cut down.  I watched a bunch of videos that showed how to remove the piece of PVC in the tee could be removed.  None were very practical in this situation.  During the night a solution came.  I would make a plug.

I mounted the lathe on my work bench.  I found a short piece of pine that I could turn to fit the pipe.  The left end will go into the pipe.  It took a lot of turning and removing it then test it against the broken piece.

I coated it with pipe cement and pounded it in.  I left it there and will turn the water on in the morning.

This photo is a couple days old.  There were still  a couple of low places on the edges that need more putty.  I put on some more;

Carol finished this puzzle last night.

I took Shane, Adam, and Dustin for a tour of our yard.  I showed them how the irrigation water it distributed throughout our yard and all of the sources for well water.  There are hose bibs all over our yard.

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Tomato Plants and Water

Skipping the morning chores.   We drove to Fillmore late this morning and bought a few groceries and filled car with gas.

I planted about forty-five tomato plants.  With those that I planted a couple of weeks ago, it makes fifty-four on the first row.  I stretched a line between the first post and the last post to have the plants in a straight row.

This shows a small part of the row.  It is in the bottom of the photo..  The photo also shows what I planted last week.

I turned on the pump at the well.  I put on the timer to keep the water running the pipes.  I checked all of the taps and turned them all off.

I washed the empty pots which held the tomato plants.

I sprayed more weeds.  I did a tank around the yard.  And then went up the ditch and sprayed the weeds there.  I put the tank in the back of our truck and drove up to the ditch.  The above picture is of the ditch and a place where the water drains of the road and runs in my ditch.

The above photo is where the water comes under the road into my ditch.   The left side of picture show and PVC pipe.  Gravel has been washed into my ditch.

The water comes from the ditch in a series of pipes and end up in the west garden.  The pipe came apart here.  Last year I pushed the pipes together get the water where I needed it.  I spent an hour removing the old glue.  I sanded it.

I applied a lot of glue the Tee and on the nipple and pushed it together.  I think that is fixed.  I will have to wait until our first water turn to see if it is really fixed.

Rhubarb in the above photo.  I cleaned out the weeds and old plant material.

I planted more beets.  But I had a problem with the seeder.  The beet seeds would not fall through the shoot.  Why?  It was full of cob webs.  I cleaned them out which took quite a long time.

Here is a drip line which will water the earlier beet planting and todays planting.

Last is the Bray home.  They worked on it most of the day.



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