Friday, April 14, 2017 Good Friday

Yesterday and today I fertilized most of the backyard plants with a Miracle Grow all purpose agent. I have started putting together a calendar to remind me when to fertilize and prune all the assorted plants we have. I finished moving the fruit trees and other inside foliage outside today, including the brugmansia. In taking the brugmansia, I broke off a short stem. I put it in a cup of water to see if it will sprout. T did this with a much larger stem and it grew. Her intention was to give it to Laura, but, not knowing that, I gave it to a neighbor who admired the parent plant.

Today, I commissioned the water lines out to the garage. When the plumber showed me how to winterize the system last Fall, I asked why we were blowing the lines from the basement out to the garage. The basement is the low point. It seemed like we should blow from the garage back to the basement. No, I was assured this would be OK. Well, today I found a split in the copper line out in the garage. I got some epoxy and plugged the split. Hopefully it will hold.

There is so much color in the backyard. I don't know what the colors are, but I can see them.

Update:

When I went out for my evening walk, I found about 1/2" of water in the garage. The epoxy patch did not hold. Not overly surprised except for how well the doors (especially the garage bay doors) did to contain the water. I shut the water off and went on with my walk. Tomorrow, I will put on another epoxy patch PLUS a clamp I also bought today.