I need to water the emerging trees and shrubs. New leaves are coming out with brown edges on the little curled leaves. The last rain was at the end of February. Since then, just a few tenths of an inch in all of March, less than two tenths on April 1st, and nothing since.
The faucet extender by the front steps --- the one that cut the underground electrical to the lamp post when I hammered the support stake in --- that one creates a geyser when I turn it on. The set screw in the handle, a tiny little thing, fell out.
The hose by the steps to the deck has a spouting leak right in the middle of it, in the sheath that covers the hose itself.
Nothing works. Jim bought new ones today at Lowe's and I have been laboriously connecting them and winding the kinky stiff new hoses around the reel keepers.
We shut the water off every winter. We drain the hoses, but leave them outside, empty, wound on the reels. I leave the faucet extenders in place in the ground.
But every spring, the hoses are hosed, the connections kaput.
Watering tools are like annuals. I apparently need to buy new ones each year.
