Weekend fun!?!

Once again we had a pretty busy weekend. This spring we have gone from constant rain for close to a month to extreme heat and no rain. Everything is drying out so....... bring on the irrigation (hoses and sprinklers). Problem is that it's not just  hose or two, some areas we have to have 200+ feet of hose. THAT is a pain to move so........... we decided it was time to install a water hydrant closer to the pumpkin/ watermelon patch. Not a big deal right??!  Except we weren't real sure where the water line was. We had a general idea but digging 16"+ inches deep to locate a 1" line is pretty much a crap shoot. After about an hour of digging and producing a really nice trench we went in and had breakfast to rethink our strategy. The conclusion was it's time for the big guns....... here comes the tractor. Digging with the front end loader was so much easier, within 10 minutes I had found the waterline........... fortunately we had already turned off the water so when I broke the line there weren't gallons upon gallons of water gushing just a constant stream ...... well kinda like a bubbling brook.
After we baled the water out of the hole so we could see the pipe we plumbed the hydrant and shutoff valve to the main water line turned on the water and HOLY COW  no leaks!  So we got the hole filled in and turned on the sprinkler using only 1 hose. Mission complete!
  On to the new cultivator for the garden. It adjusts up and down and side to side and will eliminat a lot of weeding. I 'll let you know how well it works.

 Did I mention it was pushing 100 degrees on Saturday?
 Good thing we got that water hydrant in it's been so dry........

 Did I mention WE had  a thunderstorm with wind gusts up to 60 mph.
( It moved the satellite dish so we aren't getting full reception...ugh.)

I woke up Sunday and my husband was already out running the weed eater around the pasture. The electric fence wasn't working as well as it should. After breakfast we went out to find where the gate was catching the fence charge. It's not supposed to shock you. We made some adjustments to the gate and changed some insulators solving that problem.
Along with the regular "stuff" we do around here it was another hot, busy and productive weekend.
 Thanks to our oldest daughter and her fiancee for the help with the water and lunch on Saturday.