Venturing Out

Friday we went out to help Grandpa and Grandma.  They are putting in some main line all along the grapes to pressurize their yard water, also some solid set in the “pumpkin patch” and then solid set down below the cement pad for a bunch more grass.  Before lunch we picked up rock and debris and after lunch we helped get the pipe in the trenches.  That’s what Rex was talking about when he was talking about leap frogging.  Grandpa had glued pipe so that there was one long pipe the length of the grape vines (they took out the raspberries) and we had to leap frog each other as we laid it in the trench so that the dirt didn’t get knocked in before the pipe got laid.  It worked great.  It was a bit windy and a bit cold and reminded me of so many Spring Breaks in my youth.  It seems like we were always doing a pipe project on Spring Break.  Grandpa told the kids a cool story about when Kase was doing an internship for Gore before he graduated from college and for some project there was a lot of pvc and gluing to do.  An older, seasoned employee that was working there didn’t know what to do but Kase was really good at it and it really impressed the boss.  The hands-on farm lessons can go a long way.  Anyway, it was good to get out.  That’s the first time we’ve been around people since March 17^th. 

Rex cleaning out trenches.

Grateful for a tractor with a bucket.

Happy Lyle

(They knew Grandpa and Grandma were going to pay them.)

Solid set for the "pumpkin patch."

Worker Sariah Worker

And this one has come a long way in work ethic.

Social distancing with Grandpa.  Felt so good to be with people and be working outside.

And they got to hold puppies at Lloyd's on the way home.