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  • Dripworks Mainline Puncture: In A Good Cause

    Mary poked a garden fork tine into the mainline pipe of the garden irrigation plumbIng:

    Mainline pipe puncture
    Mainline pipe puncture

    Fortunately, I have a pipe clamp for just such occasions:

    Mainline pipe puncture - repaired - with cause
    Mainline pipe puncture – repaired – with cause

    After installing the clamp, we excavated the reddish lump just beyond it:

    Mainline pipe puncture - excavated sweet potato
    Mainline pipe puncture – excavated sweet potato

    It’s a purple sweet potato, one of several that had escaped from their assigned plot, grown beyond the pipe, and burrowed under the path.

    Her garden is as neat and tidy as a garden can be, but digging in the soil to find the crops isn’t an exact process!