Pipe!

“I hate irrigating,” Liam grumbled as he trudged into the field.

“What is irrigating?” Alicia skipped along beside him.

“We just have to turn the wheels on the gates so the water will go down a different set of ditches. Here’s the first one.” He walked up to the chest-high, metal gate and started turning the soccer ball sized wheel on the top to let the water flow into a new channel. “You turn that one while I do this.”

“Sure!” Alicia stepped up to another gate and turned the wheel. As she did, she stared at the way the water receded. “Hey, this isn’t so hard. It’s kind of fun. Why don’t you like….Ack! Snake!!”

“That’s why.”

The Hub: Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
Photo credit: Dale Rogerson