The Year Money Grew on Trees by Aaron Hawkins

Author:Aaron Hawkins [Hawkins, Aaron R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

On Monday after school, we cranked the water on again. The ditch filled up to the dam, and we let Amy start all the pipes while Sam, Michael, and I watched the rows. There were little breaks, but nothing like what happened on Saturday. We dug and filled to get the channels just right, and soon ten rows had shining streams of water flowing toward them. We left the water running until it was dark and then crossed over the road holding flashlights and turned off the gate. On Tuesday we moved the dams and pipes and repeated the process on the next ten rows. On Wednesday we did the same thing for the last ten.

Amy was never really happy with our first main ditch, and Sam, Michael, and I were forced to dig it deeper with shovels for the next two months. Our hands became thick with calluses, and as we dug we would refer to Amy as "the ditch witch."

After a few rounds, watering became pretty routine and floods a rarity. Eventually, I was as good at starting the siphon hoses as Amy, although she would never admit it. We even dug a couple of shallow trenches into our yards and would flood my mom's lawn once a week. She said it never looked greener, and my dad said it had never looked cheaper. Sometimes we would take off our shoes and walk around barefoot in the water splashing each other. Almost like we were kids.

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