My husbands family roots run deep in this area.
In fact, his fourth great grandfather's home is on the historical register.
And the house is the oldest remaining original structure in the area.
We went for a quick little tour of it today.
We were peeking out the window during our tour
and all of a sudden we noticed ...
IRRIGATION DITCHES!!!
Why is that so exciting you may wonder?
Because our new home is just a few blocks away
and our new yard has FLOOD IRRIGATION too!
That's a whole new ballgame that we have to figure out how to use.
My husband and I have never lived somewhere where
we have water shares and have to turn on the flood gates when it's our turn.
It's something we are trying to wrap our heads around
as we try and come up with a new landscape plan for our new house.
So it was fun to see another yard that uses it.
Basically, they had built a ditch through the yard...
It started with a small rock waterfall structure
as it came down the yard.
I like that they made the irrigation ditches into focal points,
with a nice water feature and "streams".
It was cool to see.
They even made a nice patio space around
a HUGE pecan tree
{which is just out of the picture, sorry!}
It was fun and the docent even gave us the name of
someone nearby who knows all about the flood irrigation ditches
and how to work with them!
SCORE!!!
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