Watering Bracelets

     This is one of my watering bracelets. The idea behind this came from my mother. She needed a reminder that she had the water running in her horse barn. So water wouldn't overflow and make a huge mud mess, her tacky bracelet would remind her that water was running somewhere.
         I use these bracelets on every faucet on my property. The one shown is for the orchard. I have one for the side yard, pond, chicken/duck/livestock area, pool and garden. The idea: you have to put on the bracelet when water is turned on, the replace it on the faucet when you turn off the water. So if you find yourself taking off this bracelet when your going to bed....you have a very large puddle somewhere.
     Although my ducks love me when their pond overflows, I don't love to see the pool gushing out the filter hole. This is a great project for kids. Just use fishing string and a whole assortment of beads. The ugly, blingy, the oh-my-gosh-I-would-never-wear-that beads work great for this.

And yes, even though I have a water timer on the garden water, every once in a while it gets over a hundred here in the summer (almost every day in July, August, & September) and the cukes and zukes need a little something to wet their whistle. Notice, my Rhode Island Red eyeing the bling. After the picture, I had to move it higher than my turkey could jump. Guess it looked a little to good to just sit there.

Happy Watering, you lucky farm