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gene
May 18, 2018, 6:20:35 PM5/18/18
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Just enjoying a lattee from our nescafe machine...waiting for our afternoon shower..distant lightning and thunder...temperature drop...dark skies rolling in...really a pleasant afternoon...got the clothes brought in off of the line folded and put up...our lawn has turned green in the last three days...got lawnmower serviced and ready for this season...hope all of you enjoy your weekend...
Gene
Sam Wilson
May 18, 2018, 8:10:26 PM5/18/18
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Gene,
Yes, indeed... All day I've been anticipating the same. We had such a nice
lasting rain yesterday and I expect at least a modest rain this evening. Yesterday's
rain started hard enough for me to get up and check my various drain contraptions.
I know the weak points better than any... I am going on 3 years now without an
aguacero getting inside the house... jajaja. My Rube Goldberg drain system is
functioning super great!
As our neighborhood encroached around us, going from almost no tapias to
almost all tapias, easy drainage became a thing of the past. Everyone used to
just let whatever rain water run downhill, because that's how God intended, and
eventually those at the bottom of the neighborhood have their water continue
on downhill as well. Water doesn't stand around here, it all flows downhill.
Anyway, along with tapias in the 'hood, came the need for pre-thought out water
control. "Pre-thought?" you say? Yes, "pre-" as in... it is too late to properly
plan water drainage for a neighborhood after it is build and walled up. So, I've
got two different sets of pipes (big and small) going under 3 different neighbor
yards getting to the farm out back that drains all the water from our area down to
the nearest creek and then that creek finds a bigger one, etc. etc. During heavy
aguacero my drain tubes dumping into a farm ditch outback look like fire-hose
bazookas blasting with max force. Sometimes I walk out back in the middle of
a warm downpour just to watch the raw power of it all.
Heck, our succulent volcanic loam out back is so juicy right now, I'm sure I'm
gonna spend the weekend rearranging plants in my wife's gardens. Gardening
in the moist on a cool sunny morning is so much better than cleaning up plátano
rubbish on a hot still day, so I can't complain. jajajaja.
I've got a bunch of semillas de plátano enano I've got to move from near garden
to farm out back where I've run out of room for such stuff. That means I'm going
to have to get serious about getting rid of banana varieties we don't like as much.
I've got 5 or 6 types growing in various areas and our favorite variety du jour is
the dwarf plátanos I've been spreading around since I bought the 1st semilla on
the side of the road by Puntarenas a few years ago. We get nice sized racimos
(with 35+) on a dwarf stalk that is maybe 2.0m tall where the racimo pops out.
They are SO much easier to harvest and clean up after than 5+ m plátanos.
Gene... that looks like exceptional work on your water pressure rig, and getting
in the lawn-mower blade business? Pure genius! I am impressed! ;-) jajajajaja.
Or in honor of Gene's fancy truck... jajaja:
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Sam
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