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| Click on Image to Enlarge Sprinkler Fun While Watering the Garden |
Ask any gardener, and they'll tell you that gardening is a great deal of work, but can also be a lot of fun. They'll also tell you that much depends, success-wise, on sunshine and rain.
Early on in this growing season, Mother Nature presented gardeners with a modicum of sunshine and a lot of rain - A LOT OF RAIN!
Watering by hose, therefore, didn't become an issue until mid-to-late July: A refreshing development, actually, to both my environmental sensibilities and my pocketbook.
When irrigation of my plants did finally become necessary, unexpected albeit entertaining benefits occurred:
1. Grand-daughter, Mattie-Belle re-discovered the thrill of running through the garden sprinkler; and, it mattered not a bit to her, the chilly water temperature of the sprinkler fun.
2. As usually happens when watching the happy innocence of children behaving as children do, Mattie-Belle's delight put a huge smile on my face.
3. Mattie-Belle didn't know it, but her Grandad was controlling the height of the water by crimping and un-crimping the hose from the porch, and her occasional surprise dousing put a smile on his face.
4. I was compelled to take a dozen or so candid pictures and this one brief funny video.
Have a look - It's a very short clip, but will likely put a smile on your face, too!
