Partially finished projects...

Last week I was at Costco, and picked up a couple of rose bushes. You see in Arizona it is the time to plant things like that. I got a "Donna Darlin'" and a "Frivolous Pink" and the next day proceeded to plant them. I started digging the first hole with no problems. But about half way in to the second hold, I felt a rock or something. My shovel was stuck under it, so I popped it out. Crack! I heard. That was when I realized I had just broken the drip line PVC pipe. (Words I shouldn't say came out of my mouth at this point!) I stopped, stared at the hole, and gasped. Then started digging in a place less likely to have a pipe in it.

The next day, I went outside to hang something on the line, and noticed that the entire side yard was flooded. Like, seriously a bloody river was flowing (our backyard's landscaping includes this reddish 1/4 inch landscaping rock. But it has a lot of reddish dust in it, when it gets wet or the dog rolls in it- it shows up as russet.) I ran into the front yard and turned off the drip system. The water had broken the pipe joint completely. Where I had merely fractured it, it was now two separate pieces.

Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap!

Its been a week and I finally fixed it today. I wanted, no needed, someone to tell me that it wasn't too bad. I had merely broken the elbow joint. Not a huge deal to replace. We even had Christy's Red Hot Blue Glue (best stuff ever!) to fix it. Its done now, and hopefully I did a good job. I am not reburying it until it has fully cured (twenty-four hours) and the drip has run a few times. Not a big deal to have a hole in the front yard.

Fixed.

Today I also decided I would finish putting up my concrete block wall for my raised bed garden. (Please excuse the dog excrement that shows up behind the garden.) It wasn't hard. I had originally put it in a different part of the yard, but had since decided to move it to a sunnier place. I am not yet sure if I should finish it out by extending it the additional four feet. The spot it is in was our sand box. Which was huge. I want to move the sand box to where the garden originally was. But I think the sand box will probably just live on the side of the garden for now. Even with the garden there- its still huge.

Shush- I know it isn't perfectly straight. I can live with that, can you?
Can you imagine it filled with lovely plants? I am already picturing it.