Rude Awakening

July 1, 5:30 AM, look out side the roof of the garage and the lawn looks a little white, Oh No Frost!
(They say that if there is frost and you catch it soon enough spray water on the plants and you can save them.)
Well out of the house as fast as I can (in my sleep wear). Feel the leaves of the tomatoes –confirmation-- there is frost-- Grab the watering can spray water on the tomatoes. Across the lawn I run, full speed slipping and sliding on the frosty grass. Turn off the faucet (it’s a quarter turn valve) as I am trying to unhook the pest control sprayer, I’m undoing the hose, there is water spraying all over the place and I am getting wet. I am thinking to myself in a flustered not awake flurry, why has the pressure not bled off the hose yet as the last thread is about to let loose and as I am standing in my own watery getting wet rainbow of water. I finally was waking up enough realize I did not pay attention to the valve; I had turned the water on --not off! I let the water pressure bleed off, unhook the pest control hose, screw on the sprinkler hose, turn on the water. Oh what a lovely sound of --tosh—tosh—tosh of the sprinkler wetting the leaves to keep the frost from settling on the plants. Back up to the house slipping and sliding across the lawn, grab the sprinkler can fill it from the rain barrel and sprinkle the leaves of the tomatoes again.
By now the deck where the tomatoes are is now frost laden and I am standing admiring my work hoping and praying I had saved the plants my wife had toiled over for so many days. I look down at my bare feet they are melting the frost on the deck, I forgot to put on some shoes. Every ten minuets I poured water over those tomatoes until the sun broke over the trees, to shine its warmth on those tomatoes.
Later that day we checked all of the plants not a speck of frost damage. Which makes me wonder did I save the day for those plants!
Happy Canada Day
Sifu Hayes
www.silentriverkungfu.com Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada.