Tonight, I finally did it. I got the city irrigation water connection all the way hooked up to my sprinkler system, and it’s running. This is awesome! No more $200 water bills in the summer! Now I get all the water I need for about $30 a month.

Also, I discovered a few more flowers that I didn’t mention in yesterday’s post about what’s blooming now:

• Mexican Evening Primrose (the pink ones that are invasive — I left a few pieces of it in the flowerbed).
• Missouri Evening Primrose just started today. This is an isolated specimen that came from the old wildflower mix, and it has yellow flowers. I just learned what it is today when it bloomed. I believe it’s not invasive like the Mexican one. Perhaps I should propagate it by cuttings and add some more yellow to my flowerbeds.