Since I've been at home, I've installed a new lighting fixture, helped my parents clean out and reorganize several closets, bought some plants for the yard, and helped my dad design and instal a sprinkler system for our yard. We started the project by measuring all the areas around the house that we wanted to cover. As we were measuring we decided what valves and types of sprayers we wanted to place. We measured and decided on spray heads and then sat down and designed the layout. We measured out the popes to scale and color coordinated the spray heads. Once we had the layout finished, we sat down to work on the grueling process of adding all of the materials we needed to our online Home Depot cart. This process took about two hours for my father to evaluate all the brands and different prices and make his choice. About 300 items in our cart later, we still had to wait a week before we could go pick up our supplies. Being a Type-One Diabetic, I have not gone in to any place of business since coming home to quarantine, so unfortunately my dad had to do all of the heavy lifting at this point. We finally got to lay out all the pipes, and dug the pathways before gluing the pipes together. We buried them and tested them and so far so good! We have the back all worked out, and starting next week we plan on finishing the front yard.
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