Setting up irrigation for the fruit trees

Tuesday

I got up at 7:30. I got ready for the day and made fiber gel and took probiotics. I made HOCL with the little machine. It smelled kinda like bleach. I went to 211 to clean then remembered to check 108 to make sure it was ready for inspection. It needed another hour. How did I miss so much? I went back and forth between 108 and 211 to get the cleaning supplies I needed. I tried out the HOCL. I guess it sanitizes, but it didn't seem to clean up dirt any better than ammonia.

I ate fiber gel, then sat outside and read. I made and ate breakfast. I went to Saronna's house to play. Her husband joined in for one song. Then I dropped by 60C to give Jamie her share of the money from 108. I also scrubbed the bottom of the oven.

I went home. I put some compost accelerator on the compost pile. I put some in a container and filled all the jugs with water. I took them out to the garden. I watered the flower plants and garlic and the cherry trees. The accelerator went under the hay.

On the way home, I clipped a branch from the apple tree. At home, I cut it into sections and stripped the bottom of each section. I dipped them in rooting hormone and put them in a pot of new potting soil. I covered it with a plastic bag like a mini greenhouse. William called. He said he found a buyer for the Oldsmobile, willing to pay $500. I know that will make Michele happy.

Chris came home with bags of salt for the water softener. While I was helping him, Casey came over to get the hoses from last year. Isadora came with him and got to pick through a bin of fabric. Then we took the hoses and a splitter and a timer to House #2. We hooked up the hoses and ran them to the trees. But the long black one was full of cuts like someone had mowed over it. Plus, it would not attach completely to the timer and leaked like a sieve. We could not fix that. Nor could Casey get it detached from the green hose. So we set the timer to water the apple tree and called it a day. Casey took me home.

When I got home, I made a carrot salad and added sprouts. I read messages. I worked on my blog. I made tea and we watched one episode of Longmire. Then we read a lesson from the book that the chaplain gave us. Soon Chris went to bed, but I stayed up to read.