Total bonehead...

Scene: Sunday afternoon, I was getting ready for a family dinner with all my family and was freshening the dining area and opening blinds when I looked into my backyard. I saw water everywhere! I had totally forgot that I had left the water on in my garden and it had flooded. It was on all day Saturday, Saturday night and half the day on Sunday! I run downstairs, turn off the hose and look in my neighbor's yard. Yep, totally flooded too. The worst is that a ton of sand washed from my yard into the neighbor's finished yard. There's mud all over his rocks. So I'm embarrassed and MAD! I was mad at Merril because he was going to replace the irrigation valve for the garden so it would water on its own but hadn't gotten around to it. I was mad at the kids because they were simply standing there. I was mad that our yard slopes to one side so all the water runs to one corner and then into the neighbor's yard but most of all, I was just mad at myself. I had forgotten, I had left the water on and it was my fault. So I formulated a plan of action while I angrily scrubbed the kitchen: First of all, I need to go to the hardware store to buy a valve and replace it myself or just hand it to Merril and have him slap it on. It's not hard, I've just put it off. Second, I was going to get a load of dirt for the corner of my yard that slopes and build it up. That way if my yard floods again or we get a really big rain storm, at least the water will stay up on my lot. And third, I'll go buy new rocks for the neighbor's yard and fix the mud-soaked corner of their yard. And I apologized. What a bonehead.