They say a list is important to getting all you need to done

But if you make a list that would mean setting a plan... and that is something that NEVER works for me. Every time I make a plan of any kind, everything possible conspires against me to make sure it is going to go awry!!! :(

Started with a plan this morning - had so much to get done and needed to get to the store first thing. Got waylayed waiting on a client, finally headed out to run the errands I needed to run - at noon. Got all the things I needed to finish up prepping the garden and getting those strawberries in the ground, including the replacement sprinkler, in the corner of the bed.

Got home finally at 2:30 - Webelos at 4:30, no spreading fertalizer (stinky steer manure) on the garden before scouts, not sure 8 10yo scouts would enjoy that!! I'ill fix the sprinkler and put out the mouse bait (yes, it's SAFE FOR PETS!!)

Fix the sprinkler and have Ronnie turn it on to test it... blew it right off! WHAT??? :( Dig down and discover it is that stupid black tubing with the graduated fitting theing on the end of the coupler and something is not working :( Oh Shoot! Now I have to quit earlier to change for scouts, cause I am all muddy (better than stinky, I guess!!)

I will conquer it after scouts... after dinner... Ron comes home and is going to help me by fixing it. I go down and turn it on and he says "it isn't coming on at all" WHAT??? I turn it off and go back up, he comes in and starts mumbling something about someone turning on that valve in the basement but everyone assures me nobody has messed with the valve.

Let me backtrack now... our city just put in pressurized irrigation. it is great because we can water all we want, the kids can play in the water all they want and we pay a flat rate. bad thing about it is we have to hook into it ourselves. Ron and his uncle spent about 4 hrs- 3 wks ago hooking into it. Saved us! Thanks, Uncle Lance... We love you!!!!

Ok, back to tonight. the electronic sprinkler valve control is in the basement in a closet in the corner of Glen's room and the pipes run through there with a valve and then out the external wall. There's water running down the wall from the hole to the floor and the carpet is wet... :( That's what Ron was mumbling about!!! The valve box where we hooked into the pressureized irrigation and capped off the culinary water is full of water... so we go out front, turn off the valve at the street and Ron starts bailing. In the meantime I have dinner on the stove, Meghan is out babysitting and so I am running back and forth between trying to help Ron and keeping dinner from burning. He finally got enough water cleared out to see that the problem is a dislocated pipe below where we hooked in to the sprinkler system. "Not our fault!!"

We eat a quick dinner (tacos and burrittos) and run to Lowe's for parts and then home again before we run out of sun. (I met a worker at Lowe's whose name is Lanae, cool name, huh??) Get home, cut the pipe with a piece of junk pipe cutter that I am taking back tomorrow... I don't think it could make a fourth cut if we wanted it to!!! got all the parts measured, glued and fitted and put it all back together... it all works!! :D I love you Ron!!!

But! I am no further today than I was yesterday and my poor little strawberries are still sitting in a flat pan in my garage and the fertilizer is sitting in the wagon in the back yard and the sprinkler that is in the corner of the raised bed that I wanted to plant the strawberries in is still broken and flooding that corner whenever we turn the sprinklers on. ... :( and it is supposed to start getting ugly tomorrow and I have an appt at 10:30 in the am and then I am supposed to be fertilizing the grass in the afternoon before the rain hits and I have an appt Thurs morning at 10:30 and ... THIS IS WHY I DON'T MAKE PLANS!!! :D As soon as I make plans they all go awry!!!

So tomorrow I don't plan on getting out of bed, making lunches and going out back to put the fertelizer on the garden, hit it with the rototiller one more time before I come in to shower for my 10:30 appt. and then I don't plan on planting those cute little strawberries after I get home and I won't plan on fertilizing the front yard either. If there is e-mail for my job I will be doing that, but that is all I plan to do tomorrow, oh and keep my 10:30 appointment!!! :D Right now I plan to go to bed!!! You all have a great night!!!