It got an odd look from my neighbour a few days ago when I dragged six garden hoses from the shed.

It got an odd look from my neighbour a few days ago when I dragged six garden hoses from the shed.

Odd because by the end of November, the hoses are normally put away.

I connected the six hoses together to stretch 90 metres, just barely long enough to reach the far end of the meadow, or what I call the back forty.

Each of my 38 trees got at least five minutes of water, about 10 minutes for the evergreens.

We have had a dry fall. Spring and summer were wet enough, but since early September, we have had far less rain than usual.

The 20 trees I planted........

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