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Sunday, July 3, 2016

postheadericon Gay July-2-16

6:54 AM | Posted by Sharp's Travels
It was another busy day. Cheri and Brooke were busy taking care of Wyatt. Darren and I made a trip to the recycling center to get rid of a supply of cardboard he had. Then a stop at Home Depot to return the electrical materials we didn’t need. When we got back home it was time to work on the damage the carpenter bees had done under the eve of the house and a column in front of the house. This was something new for me as I had never heard of carpenter bees. What they do is bore into the wood to lay eggs. So you have all these holes. We sprayed them with an insecticide, then plugged the hole channels with steel wool and filled the hole with plastic wood. Later some sanding and painting will have to be done. Next it was time to work on the sprinkler system. There were three leaks in the system. Two of them were from broken sprinkler heads and the third was from a fitting that came apart. That met another trip to Home Depot to get repair parts. After fixing the fitting and one sprinkler head we check that zone and found that Darren had two additional sprinkler heads that he didn’t know about. We moved one of those as it was right under some of the shrubs and wasn’t able to spray out into the lawn. We also found the five different zone controls that are for the system. We still haven’t found the main water shut off for the system. It was 7:00 pm when we quit for the day. After pizza for supper and a nice hot shower I was ready to call it a day. It was 100 degrees working outside on the sprinkler system. It didn’t seem too bad as the humidity isn’t as bad as it is in Florida.   

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