Spring is here and so are our projects: landscaping, irrigation, retaining walls.... and heating pump/furnace!!! When we bough our house in late summer last year with it we also inherited randomly placed irrigation lines, spikets, 10 different hoses and sprinklers that the original owner probably loved operating for 34 years; we on the other hand, within a week, were tired of running around every evening turning on each hose and sprinkler to water the lawn. So we knew this spring we would be digging trenches and starting fresh. We also were planning to take down a very overgrown juniper hedge and build a retaining wall to extend the back yard lawn. Little did we know that our heat pump and furnace would also choose to die (just last week), but at least it happened during our planning and bidding stages so we were easily able to put a halt on our retaining wall and lawn project.
The past few weekends we have spent cleaning, pruning and prepping for "trench" digging day. My dad had drawn a color coded schematic of the irrigation lines, styles of sprinkler heads and pumps and so on Saturday morning, Evan and my dad, were ready to go. It was lots of hard work for these two and dad's help was tremendous. They enjoyed some nice chardonay and the hot tub later than night to recovery their very sore muscles:) Now the trenches are dug, some pipes are in place but there is still quite a bit of work to do. In the mean time I am doing my best to keep the kids from getting stuck in the trenches as we enjoy the spring weather outside!
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