[GH85Carrera]

Vacation, ya suffer. 12 hour days 7 days a week is what the company wants. Of course no one on their deathbed thinks, dang I wished I had worked a few more hours a day in my career.

The boss's wife came in and had me out in the garden doing sprinkler repair. One of the 1/4 rubber hoses for the drip irrigation in the front flowerbed had a hunk cut out of it. I can only guess a mouse or vole chewed on the hose. The good news is is if just a rubber hose, so two connectors and a few inches of hose and it is fixed, in theory. The bad news is is is just 54 degrees right now, so the rubber hose is more like hard plastic and pushing a fitting into position is pretty much only for the Hulk or Superman level of strength.

So I had to grab my heat gun, and an extension cord, and warm up the hose ends. Then it is really easy to shove the fitting into place. So that is done.

One of the great gifts I got her that she did not know she needed until she got it, is a battery operated cutter. Just pull the trigger and the electric motor will cut off a limb 1/2 to 3/4 inch in diameter. She had some stuff to trim and easily can do it without my help now. She even said that is why I got it for her. I told her it was only because I loved her and was trying to make her life easier. She just rolled her eyes.