Adventures in irrigation

Garry and the guys continue to work on the irrigation.  Still experimenting with the reel. So far this week, either the water company turns off the water when they get it going on the alfalfa field or it doesn't do what they expect. They got a lot of water on some parts of the field, they're still working on calibrating the equipment to get the amount they need. They thought it was going to shut off when the hose was fully extended but it didn't one time. 

Meanwhile work continues on getting the drip lines attached to the lay flat hoses in the corn fields.  Garry was hoping to get the water going on the small corn field today when I talked to him last night- his Thursday morning. That field is ready now.

 Plus he planned to get some guys working on getting the other field's connections together. Two of the guys have trouble doing it, they can't remember all the steps to get them attached correctly to the layflat hose, so they pull apart when they think they're done.

He told me a prospective new student came on Monday,  he'd gotten kicked out of trade school or something.  He had a tour of the program with Kolya,  and refused to set foot in the barn. Tuesday morning they took him out to the cornfield to help with the water lines and he refused to do that, walked back to Vova's, collected his stuff and walked out to the highway to catch a bus back to the city.

Here in Manitoba I am busy with some grandkid sitting and cleaning up my flowerbeds.  The rocks keep the dogs from digging holes.