Hi from North Carolina where it is very hot currently 95 degrees here. Hope you don't mind, I'm starting a series of posts about landfill rescues. Today I found this top quality 75 foot garden hose in the dumpster at our local convenience site. All it needed was a female end replaced. This hose I just bought one like it for $50 +. People are so wasteful it disturbs me sometimes.
Here is all that was wrong with the hose, ran over by a car or truck on the female end.
It took all of 5 minutes and a $7 female hose end to fix it. Not it was hard to slide on, I found connecting to the other end of the hose made it much easier to slide on. Some people might add a little soap to make it slide on easier if they are not very strong. I have done this many times for my handyman customers. You can buy less expensive hose repair fitting, the plastic ones. I use the good brass ones because I'll remove it and use it again when this hose is at to end of it's life.
Her it is repaired. I just placed the collar on it and tightened down the screws. I tested the hose in the back garden and it worked great. It had a few kinks, so I uncurled it and the kinks were gone.
Meg did a little landfill rescue from Randy's landfill pile. I have been remodeling a bathroom and took out a shower curtain ring and tossed it in my pile. The next day I saw Meg holding it and smiling. Her daughter just build an outdoor shower and was going to purchase a shower curtain ring for it. Meg took it to her on Thursday and likely helped her install it.
Here is our bee hive late this afternoon. Lots of bees hanging out. I could not replace the syrup feeder as the bees were all over the sides and I'd kill several of them if I replaced it.
One of the best purple coneflowers were have ever grown!
Two sweet peppers in the garden. Funny I bought some just like these at the Durham Farmers Market on Wednesday.
This morning I went over to Jan's, these are his hives! We put together 10 new frames for my hive, I'll be adding a new brood box on Monday.
The rain chains are in! I love them, Meg has been away so she has not seen them yet! I hope to install the drain system for them tomorrow, that way if it rains we'll have a rain tote filling up! So stay tuned the rain chains will be my next post!!!
