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I’ve been at this 30+ years and still learn something new every year.

I knew you were going to say that:) I almost added (Summary: year 2032, 10 years, still learning)

Speaking of learning or figuring things out; I wanted to fertilize just a few plants and they're all on one leg of the drip system. Tank Sprayer pump inlet is just a 3/8" barbed hose fitting so I stole a couple of feet of the 15 foot hose for the sprayer wand and stuck one end in a 1 gallon jug of fish fertilizer mix. I turned off the shut-off valves to rest of the drip system and am fertilizing those few plants as I type.

I can pretty much hook the pump inlet hose to any size container/tank of water or liquid fertilizer. So far it's been 220 gal via hose garden spigot, 15 gal & 1 gal via 3/8" hose. The drip lines hold volume so when the 1 gallon jug is finished, I'll swap to the big tank of water and push the rest of the fertilizer mix out and water it in a little.

Not doing as much gardening as I'd like because life and a job get in the way. Worked on the truck day before yesterday. Set of four shocks and anti-sway bar bushings. Spent half a day cooking ahead using the new air fryer. I've been buying stuff out of the vending machines at work, including $3 to $6.50 sandwiches. Downloaded 30 days of bank/debit transactions and it came up to $155 I fed those machines. I work seven 12 hr days every 2 weeks so it's basically been a little over $10 per day for lunch, snacks and a soda. The past two days I brought leftovers and a soda which probably totaled up to $3/day.

I'm liking the little round air fryer for meat and potatoes but the pork steaks were a tight fit and I had to do them one at a time. So I bought a microwave sized convection oven which is basically the same cooking technique, heat plus fan. It also has a rotisserie built in. Limit is about a 4lb chicken but that's what I tend to buy anyway. ("Toast, Bake, Roast, Broil, Pizza, Reheat, Warm, Rotisserie, Dehydrate") Now I need a Sam's Club Rotisserie Chicken copy cat recipe. Did I mention it has a Rotisserie?

I need a 20 foot counter for all my small kitchen appliances.

Here's what I was talking about with my lean and lower issue. The tall one is hanging from a chain that hangs under the 2x4 and runs the full length of the 2x4. That's my lean and lower chain. Better than rope, cable, pipe etc because they won't slide when windy.

(The tall one is a Chadwick Cherry but I only had room for Chad on the plant marker which makes it a Hanging Chad)

That taller one would be leaned and lowered to the left due to being at the right end of the trellis but that would have it on top of the short one. You can barely see the black rope on the 2x4 which will be replaced by chain and used to lean the other direction with that tall plant.

I suppose if I went left with the tall one, it might outrun the short one and end up hanging to the left of the short one that's currently on the left. LOL They would just overlap with the tall one being behind the short one for a short time until it passes it. There ain't no solid yellow line so I guess it's a passing zone.

Will see how things grow over the next few weeks. In hindsight, I should have planted shorty on the outside of the pole and could have easily crossed over the pole to hang on the chain and follow the tall one to the left down trellis. There was supposed to be four plants in a row, even before I got shorty, but I hit major rockiness and had to plant elsewhere. Gardening next year down in the rock free zone will be so much better.