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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Water was running today!


 Yesterday the guys were finishing digging the trench across our yard for the water line. First they dug 15 metres of trench, and then after lunch Garry and Maxim dug another 15 metres because the pipe was too short when they put it in the trench, so they had to dig the trench straighter than the first try, where they had zig and zagged  through the fruit trees to avoid some of the roots.
The peas and spinach will enjoy some water later
 Today was the day when the water was getting turned on, the neighbor Misha got his connection hooked on to the pipe (everyone needed their meter and connection done today) and Victor came out this morning and helped with getting ours on- there was a little problem with having some metric and some non-metric parts, but they got it to work. Just before lunch he and Garry were hooking a small pipe to the connection so they could water the garden and some of the trees and flowers.

the connection/shut-off for our yard
 The guys went to turn the water on, I waited around in case the valve needed to be turned off when the water started flowing- like there was a flood before they walked back. Polo sat in the shade of the raspberry bushes waiting with me, I was told it would be 15-20 minutes before anything happened so I took photos of the insects in the fruit trees.



no water yet
  I heard some gurgling noises like air was going through the pipes, but no water came out. Victor and the neighbor checked it out.
 After lunch, they got the air lock out of the pipe, and look! water flowed into a bucket, then Garry and Victor hooked up some hoses and watered lots of stuff in the yard this afternoon. They turned the big line off for the night, tomorrow the line will be tested under pressure with water being pumped from the big irrigation line the project tapped into.

Just think how big the strawberries will be this year with water! They are just starting to bloom.

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