So my I was looking over my pay per post possibilities and saw something near and dear to McMom?s heart.

She’s a bit of a neat freak — AND she dislikes watering the yard and things actually growing in the yard. She has enjoyed the watering systems our yards have had in the Arizona climate, but nowhere else she has lived have those systems been standard. In my parent’s home in Ohio the former owners had put in a system of soaker hoses - that didn’t work. So when my dad left for Iraq last year, my mom had the job of keeping everything alive during the pretty dry and hot summer.

She told me, “I got pretty tired of schlepping that hose around to the back of the yard and then the front of the house. Of course, dragging it wasn’t the hardest part of the job — the hardest part was dealing with my neat freak gene and getting the hose back on the hose reel so it looked as if my yard person had done the job for a large amount of money. Then one day I was wandering around the base exchange and saw this doodad that was cute and seemed to have serious possibilities.”

Mom bought the doodad, a hose reel, took it home and hooked up her hose to it. Her neat freak gene leaped for joy — she could easily pull out the hose, do the watering and then easily push a lever and the hose wound magically back into the housing!

It sits neatly by the back wall of the house and no one would know that it wasn’t the work of a highly paid yard person. And an added benefit is that it entertains her dog, Esau, while the hose is snaking toward its home!

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