A Typical Irrigaiton

I may have given the impression earlier that all the farm work was done for the year. Not so. Today was irrigation day, which occurs about every four weeks throughout the year unless it happens to rain, which sometimes it does. Doing irrigation means: ordering water, getting water, getting the pump to run, visually checking about seven miles of irrigation hose and sprinklers and repairing or replacing all malfunctioning sprinklers and hoses. Seven miles is no exaggeration—the ranch is almost a half mile deep and there are 14 rows of trees with a sprinkler between every one. 14 rows x .5 mile = 7 miles.