Well Yesterday Was A Disaster For Sprinkler Blowouts

Good news before the bad this time.  I took a temperature reading of the ground yesterday and it actually went up.  Temperature was 49 degrees 6 inches down, most likely due to the 60 degree temperature we had the day before.  This is why I don't freak out about the colder night temperatures, and you shouldn't either……………

Yesterday I was going really well, with a good possibility of actually finishing the 25 sprinkler blowouts I had on my current list of the Nampa 83687 and then disaster struck……  I pulled out on Middleton Road near Cherry Lane and my truck stalled.  Fortunately there was a Canyon county sheriff's deputy right behind me when it happened and directed traffic until a large enough tow truch could come to pull my large service truck and a 3,500 pound compressor.  Turns out it is the fuel pump, so it will get taken care of today for a whopping $640 or so.  It will be fun for the mechanics to drop the gas tank when I had just filled it to it's 33 gallon capacity…….

Anyway, sprinkler blowouts will go on.  I am renting a truck this morning from Uhaul for the day and continuing with the Nampa 83687.  I have my assistant with me today, so it should go rather quickly (I hope), and we can start on a few in the Meridian 83646.  Needless to say, this will throw off my tentative schedule worse than it already is.  I hope to redo the schedule in a few days including some of the other areas we have to get to.

I am behind on invoices, but will try to get them caught up over the next few days.

No route today, because we only have a handful left to finish in the 83687 and will have time for only 5 or so in the Meridian 83646, so no sense in routing that out.