Actually, it did rain on Saturday night too!
You see our grass is rather hay-like due to our refusal to install a sprinkler system on city water, and when we could afford a well no one would do that either!
Ironically, we were in the sprinkler business for many years in Ocean County New Jersey, the second largest in the county!
We sold that business when we moved here to Florida in 1986 to a neighbor and a sergeant in the Toms River Police Department, we had named it Bamber Lake Irrigation Sales and Service or BLISS! That was the name of the village we lived in in Lacey Township.
We sold it with three hundred continuing customers accounts that stuck with us for service contracts after installations. We also did besides residential we had quite a few commercial accounts, soccer fields etc. municipal buildings, retirement villages public areas. They were all normal maintenance contracts for things like winterizing the systems and restarting in Spring and for repairs and replacements of parts, and everyone was very pleased with us!
We worked with a well drilling company, but we designed and installed the sprinkler systems with our Ditch Witch machine that pulled the flexible piping under the ground. We even offered way back then rain gages that shut off the system if nature served you with enough rain. I ran the office with ordering parts, and renewing contracts and also in charge of advertising, and shows, not unlike the home and garden shows we have here in Florida. I even wrote a few radio commercials there.
It was hard work, phone calls would come in seven days a week and even in the wee hours.
But we always made our customers know we cared and resolved any questions or issues via phone or in person, we belonged to the Better Business Bureau and received an A+ rating for all those years.
This is the first home that we owned without a sprinkler system, both of our other homes on the other coast had them and of course our NJ home did too, although Hubby did tweak the ones in Florida when we lived there on the other coast and they were both on shallow wells of high iron and the rest of the home's water was city water and the city was going to offer reclaimed water for the sprinklers just when we moved to this coast. Here only we have only city water and sewers that makes everything very expensive to run, and when we did try to put the well in we hit a road block, they weren't doing them then, but since then they have, although now they are so expensive some of our across the canal neighbors have shared the expense with one another. On our street we only have one neighbor directly next door and that is and has been renters over and over again! So basically no one to go halvsies with, and the owner is out of state.
Thus at one time our rain barrels that we actually still have, but are basically unused, since we no longer have a veggie garden due to possums and feral cats using it for litter boxes. That side yard is now Aussie's agility fairway and will be again when Hubby finishes painting the fence over there.
So grass is good, and Hubby did get the Scott's weed and feed while at Home Depot and put it down before the rain came Saturday. I used to go out in the rain to do it way back when! You see, we have a small window of opportunity to fertilize these days due to the high nitrogen in most fertilizers causing damage to our waterways during rainy season. So if we want to or feel the need to fertilize our lawns it must be before June first and after November thirtieth! And we are on strict water restrictions most all dry/ fire season, only twice a week, now due to lack of water! So when we get that stray heavy downpour like we just got we take advantage of it!
But it is times like these that Hubby threatens to kill off all our grass and gardens when he gets disgusted with rushing about trying to keep the animals from eating the fruit and he hates to weed etc..., and then the thought of mowing angers him too these days... he also said he did not want to fertilize the lawn (but he did) since then it will grow, yup, and he will just have to mow it!
Okay, now is the time in his life where there are people to hire to do that, and he nearly agreed.
Only time will tell.
Usually, time passes and all seems not so bad anymore and he does take care of it all.
Geez, I used to be the gardener, and all he had to do was mow the grass. I even fertilized the lawn, weeded, planted etc.
Damn MS heat issues!
I did love gardening.
It saddens me to see how messy it gets, and so I agree, perhaps they should all go!
No reason to stress over these things, truly.
I grew the mangos, avocados from seeds, as Hubby did his lemon trees, and we both grew our pineapples from their tops... and bananas from our previous homes in Florida came with us... so much to think about, and so many other things have little stories attached to their reasons for being here...
Nah!
Who knows?
Happy good night to all!
And next time please be here of be square, ya hear!
You see our grass is rather hay-like due to our refusal to install a sprinkler system on city water, and when we could afford a well no one would do that either!
Ironically, we were in the sprinkler business for many years in Ocean County New Jersey, the second largest in the county!
We sold that business when we moved here to Florida in 1986 to a neighbor and a sergeant in the Toms River Police Department, we had named it Bamber Lake Irrigation Sales and Service or BLISS! That was the name of the village we lived in in Lacey Township.
We sold it with three hundred continuing customers accounts that stuck with us for service contracts after installations. We also did besides residential we had quite a few commercial accounts, soccer fields etc. municipal buildings, retirement villages public areas. They were all normal maintenance contracts for things like winterizing the systems and restarting in Spring and for repairs and replacements of parts, and everyone was very pleased with us!
We worked with a well drilling company, but we designed and installed the sprinkler systems with our Ditch Witch machine that pulled the flexible piping under the ground. We even offered way back then rain gages that shut off the system if nature served you with enough rain. I ran the office with ordering parts, and renewing contracts and also in charge of advertising, and shows, not unlike the home and garden shows we have here in Florida. I even wrote a few radio commercials there.
It was hard work, phone calls would come in seven days a week and even in the wee hours.
But we always made our customers know we cared and resolved any questions or issues via phone or in person, we belonged to the Better Business Bureau and received an A+ rating for all those years.
This is the first home that we owned without a sprinkler system, both of our other homes on the other coast had them and of course our NJ home did too, although Hubby did tweak the ones in Florida when we lived there on the other coast and they were both on shallow wells of high iron and the rest of the home's water was city water and the city was going to offer reclaimed water for the sprinklers just when we moved to this coast. Here only we have only city water and sewers that makes everything very expensive to run, and when we did try to put the well in we hit a road block, they weren't doing them then, but since then they have, although now they are so expensive some of our across the canal neighbors have shared the expense with one another. On our street we only have one neighbor directly next door and that is and has been renters over and over again! So basically no one to go halvsies with, and the owner is out of state.
Thus at one time our rain barrels that we actually still have, but are basically unused, since we no longer have a veggie garden due to possums and feral cats using it for litter boxes. That side yard is now Aussie's agility fairway and will be again when Hubby finishes painting the fence over there.
So grass is good, and Hubby did get the Scott's weed and feed while at Home Depot and put it down before the rain came Saturday. I used to go out in the rain to do it way back when! You see, we have a small window of opportunity to fertilize these days due to the high nitrogen in most fertilizers causing damage to our waterways during rainy season. So if we want to or feel the need to fertilize our lawns it must be before June first and after November thirtieth! And we are on strict water restrictions most all dry/ fire season, only twice a week, now due to lack of water! So when we get that stray heavy downpour like we just got we take advantage of it!
But it is times like these that Hubby threatens to kill off all our grass and gardens when he gets disgusted with rushing about trying to keep the animals from eating the fruit and he hates to weed etc..., and then the thought of mowing angers him too these days... he also said he did not want to fertilize the lawn (but he did) since then it will grow, yup, and he will just have to mow it!
Okay, now is the time in his life where there are people to hire to do that, and he nearly agreed.
Only time will tell.
Usually, time passes and all seems not so bad anymore and he does take care of it all.
Geez, I used to be the gardener, and all he had to do was mow the grass. I even fertilized the lawn, weeded, planted etc.
Damn MS heat issues!
I did love gardening.
It saddens me to see how messy it gets, and so I agree, perhaps they should all go!
No reason to stress over these things, truly.
I grew the mangos, avocados from seeds, as Hubby did his lemon trees, and we both grew our pineapples from their tops... and bananas from our previous homes in Florida came with us... so much to think about, and so many other things have little stories attached to their reasons for being here...
Nah!
Who knows?
Happy good night to all!
And next time please be here of be square, ya hear!
