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Why Jeff is the Gardener and Evelyn Should Stick to Writing!

June 21st, 2006

EHose_ETMed_IMG(TN).jpg It’s the day before summer officially begins and it’s a nice sunny day in Seattle. After a hard day’s work, I got myself a nice cold beer and went outside to claim a lawn chair and read a magazine. I guess I had read for about half an hour, and Jeff was puttering around doing his gardening stuff. Then he looked over at the tomato plants and said, “you should water your tomatoes.”

Humm, sounded like work to me, but my beer was gone by this time, so I decided it might be OK to get up and do some watering.

Now, I HAVE watered before, but sometimes Jeff has these gadgets on the hoses that redirect water, shut off water, etc., very simple devices really. So now I have the hose unrolled over to the tomato plants, and I’m trying to figure out if it’s on or not, or how to turn it on. Mind you, I’ve only had one beer at this point.

I think to myself, “this little lever on the side of the hose must be the shut-off, is it off?” So I close one eye the best I could and peeked into the hose, while turning the lever to see if it opened anything up. Yes, you guessed it! The water shot right into my face! I looked at Jeff and he just stood there staring at me, trying not break into the laughter he thought might make me mad as water dripped down my face.

So, I frowned and went over to the tomatoes and began to water, trying not to laugh in order to punish him for having such hi-tech devices on his garden hose! I couldn’t do it though, I started to crack up, and then, much relieved, Jeff started to laugh and shake his head in disbelief that I had really done such a stupid thing. Then, he came over and gave me a hug, and put a different nozzle on the hose so I could continue watering without using that little lever again.

I finished watering – then went for another beer!

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