What home improvement work did you do today?

Oh, and pics. I forgot pics. RainBirds setup at red circles in criss-cross fashion, the one closest in this pic covers the everthing from roughly the other sprinkler back to my position in the photo, and the far one covers everything from my position back to the large tree on the far back/left. The garden is setup with central spraying in each bed, with a decent, light fan.

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From then on out I always turn on the fan before taking a seat.

Once you get a sprinkler system you'll never go back to dragging hoses!!!
The only reason I still have a hose is to add water to the pool.
It has an auto fill that works like a toilet float but my pool guy recommended turning it off.
You can have a leak and not even know it until the water bill shows up.
And even then if it's not a large leak you wont notice it unless it floods your yard.
Although I'm tempted to turn it back on.
One less thing to have to deal with.

 

From then on out I always turn on the fan before taking a seat.
Figure it'll chop up any Scorpions they may be there.

 

I'm looking forward to never seeing another hose in my yard again, unless I'm doing something. I got some of those u-shaped hose stakes to stake the shorty 15' RainBird hoses into the ground, and covered with mulch.

I've actually gotta treat all our flagstone paver porch areas with 30-second Outdoor Cleaner to kill the moss off 'em this week also, so I'll have the hoses out again anyway ... but at least that's on my own terms, and the hoses get put away right after. I'm just stoked to not see any hoses laying across the yard, leaving dents in the little grass I haven't cut out of the yard.

 

I never water my grass. That makes it grow

 

Might work in Arkansas (AK), but Georgia (GE) clay isn't so forgiving if you have cold season grass like fescue. Two days of no watering in 90°+ temps with full sun, and your grass is hosed.

I've got too much shade for warm season grasses, and too much sun for cool season grasses, tall fescue is just about the only thing I've found that I can keep alive for a few years. But you miss one or two days day of watering in the summer, or let the dog pee on the grass too much between rains, and the yard starts looking like a leopard frog with yellow spots.

 

Fuck that grass

 

At least it's only 75, yhe dew point that is.
My screen porch


Oops, wrong thread

 

Love this, what a great dad, Beautiful wood working and design too! I hope they enjoy it for many years!

 

Cut down the old fence, going to re purpose the good one's for the fence in back.Drilled 14 ~ 3.5' holes put up the posts and some of the fence.
Mapped out the "new lines" for the driveway guys to remove earth for the new and expand driveway,the T-base and base coat should be done tomorrow so hopefully this weekend I can run the 6"x6"x 3 high x 70' this weekend.

Getting there!

 

We did the opposite. Started off with a stellar husband/wife pool company....the would spend way too much time at each house, hosing down concrete and making sure everything was perfect.
Husband started building pools and wife took over the customers pools. Slowly went downhill until they quiet quit on me and just stopped showing up without telling me.

If you have a great pool person, it's amazing. If you end up having to hound them then it gets annoying.

I ended up converting to salt water and got 2 robots and it's really easy now.

 

Surely there are other pool cleaning companies.
Yeah....we did the same.
Wouldnt go back to the old Chlorine pool if you paid me!!!