More Landscapping

 

Since we are staying at home, I’ve started a new landscaping project for our backyard--an irrigation system.

 We spend a lot of time watering our plants during the summer so I mentioned to Aloma what she thought about an irrigation system.  She encouraged me from the get-go.

 I diagramed our back area to place sprinklers and soak hoses where I thought they should go.  I bought sprinkler heads and valves, tested them, and bought a controller that would control six zones independently.  I built a complicated manifold for them out of PVC pipe, which I had never worked with before.  I finally got everything to work including an App on my phone to program and control each zone, even when we are away.

 When everything worked, I then had to dig trenches and a hole for the valves and manifold.  I had to take the connections and wiring apart to install the final system (and mixed the wires up so now the zones are different than before).  But, it works and I’m Aloma’s hero--again.

 This project took three weeks because I didn’t know what I was doing and for every

30 minutes of work, I sat in a chair and looked at it for 45 minutes.  Testing everything before installing it caused a lot of extra work.  I struggled making connections tight because my old hands don’t work so well. 

 In any case, I’m glad that I took the project on and I’m grateful that it works. 

 The last item I'm going to work on is so Aloma can say, “Alexa, turn on Zone 4 for 30 minutes.”

 

Seasoned Man

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