Watering Boots

Ed and I fished out our barn boots to water the seedlings today! They saved our tennis shoes, as well as our socks, from an assault by the cheat grass (upper right) in Lambert Park. The grass burrows into your shoes and socks, which not only sticks into your feet when you walk, but also takes hours to remove! Yay for boots, that saved us that aggravation when we watered the upper seedlings this morning!

And hooray for the little seedlings, valiantly trying to live in the middle of a drought! We might have 30 percent dying in the highest zones, but that means 70% are still doing great!