2021 Life Logs, Day 122: Slow Sunday
Date: Sunday, May 2, 2021
Weather: Partly Cloudy; High 63, Low, 45 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
Some days are so jam-packed with activities that there isn’t a chance to catch your breath. Today was not one of those days. It was a slow Sunday and I’m not even sure where it went. I dabbled at a few different things—cleaning house, sending photos from Bill Frieswyk’s birthday party to friends, making hardware cloth enclosures for some of my plants that rabbits have eaten over the past couple of days, and walking with Shadow. Then mid-afternoon I went to Heather’s to work on the irrigation system. When I left yesterday, I thought I had it working, but there were still a couple of leaks that had me puzzled. Well, at some point after I left, the tubing blew off the timer and water went gushing everywhere. Heather thought it was just that the some of the connections were not as tight as they should be. Not knowing any of this, during the night I dreamed about the irrigation system and woke up realizing that I might have put in the wrong piece for the water pressure regulator. A drip irrigation system has to have a pressure regulator to take the incoming water pressure down to 25 psi. Otherwise, the system blows apart . . . which is what happened after I left yesterday. So, my dream was right. I felt so absolutely stupid not to have double checked that. But to redeem myself, I drove across the bridge this evening to a Lowe’s which was the closest place with the piece needed. We have a Home Depot on the Cape, but they don’t stock the part needed. Hopefully, I can get the system right tomorrow.
