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We moved into our house we're in now back the end of April this year. When we started setting up a garden we only found one outdoor faucet to hook our hose to for watering our garden and all. Unfortunately this faucet was in the front of the house and with our 2 lengths of hose, we could only reach part of the yard with it.
So all summer when we need to water (which is quite often given the fact that we've only had significant rain a few times this summer especially since the end of June), we have our 2yo stand by some 5-gallon buckets and hold the hose in them (gives him a good job) and we haul the buckets over next to the garden areas the hose doesn't reach and the rest of the kids and I take buckets and start filling and dumping from the 5-gallon buckets. I keep swapping buckets and we get done fairly fast, but it can be hard to get them all working well and takes more effort than I love to get it done. Yes, we could have bought another length of hose, but we're on a tight budget and I really didn't want to bug my dh for one.
Today when we were out on our deck I stepped on a spot of our deck by our house where there was a hinge on a board of the deck. I had noticed this hinge and board spot that was different but just thought it was their fix-up job for a broken board or something. When I stepped on it, the board came off the hinge and part of it fell in the hole. My daughter noticed that low and behold, there was another faucet back there for a hose!
So all this summer we've been hauling water back to the back garden when we really had water close enough to just use our hose! I know it will probably take a little longer to water by spraying the garden, but it's so much easier and the kids can take turn spraying the plants which they enjoy anyways. I'm so excited to water the garden now that it's a much easier job! I thank the Lord for this small blessing!
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