Its Springtime! Hurrah!

Or- maybe not so much...

I did hear the first hummingbird of the season on Sunday and brought out a feeder to encourage the little dive-bombers to settle in and find a home. No takers at the sugar water dispensing unit yet, but its out there.

And- the secondary water made its way through the canals and pumps and pipes into my neighborhood and yard yesterday- which is good news. The bad news is that means it is time for muddy, working while bending over and on the knees, plumbing repairs. I knew I had one broken sprinkler riser to replace but that's no problem because its on the yard side of one valve, and that's no real problem. The bigger problem is the burst supply line leading to one of the circuit valves in the backyard. That one caused a bit of a flood before the main valve could be closed off and will require more digging and draining than I could get accomplished last night. I have to fix that line before I can flush out and check out the rest of the system. Its going to be the weekend before the BSU has running water for her freshly planted flowerbed out front.

Maybe I can get the Boy to do the plumbing work...

He owes me since I had to interrupt my schoolwork last night to extricate his Tracker from some deep snow he found while playing and trying out his just-replaced front differential. He and a buddy did the work yesterday, then took off to go try the 4WD on a treacherous gravel road he favors. Everything was great until they got high enough to find snow on the road deeper than the frame rails. They hiked back into cell phone range and called, I stopped and bought 2 more tow straps and brought shovels and tire chains for their extrication efforts, picked both of them up and drove back up the mountain until we found the buried Tracker. Once they dug enough snow out from under the frame rails it came out pretty easily with a tow from my truck.

It was 10:30 before I got back home...

Did I mention I have two term papers in work with two different groups of people? Argh!