What has Poppa been doing?

Well, let me see...........

........ I don't know!  What is he doing???  Oh!  One day while he was outside reading, he watched the lawn mower drive over a sprinkler that hadn't slid down when it was done sprinkling.  So - before the sprinklers turned on (they do that automatically - the system is underground, and when the pressure comes up the pipe - the little sprinkler head jumps up about five inches above the ground.  Ideally, when the pressure is gone, the little sprinkler head slides back down) Poppa thought he should get it fixed so that it didn't just flood that area of the yard and miss the larger area, he should get it fixed.  So he disappeared with Squeegie and returned with some pieces to repair it.

He carefully dug out all around it.  As you can see it is right outside the screen room, so he had to get a special head for it.  When he was satisfied with his working space....

........ he put in the new piece he had got.......

.. and then, under the scrutiny of his supervisor (pictured above), he carefully replaced all the soil...... and then patiently waited for the sprinklers to come on that evening.  He went out and stood in the dark watching, and declared it successfully repaired - for obvious reasons I didn't get a picture!  Another day I went hunting for them again...........

..... and found them outside cleaning Poppa's golf clubs.  You might notice that the supervisor was sitting in the shade inside Spiffy, but the labourer had to stay outside in the hot sun!  I should also tell you that the labourer was not complaining about the heat at all!  Speaking of Spiffy....

....... some interesting things have been happening to him.  Here is Poppa cleaning the license plates!  Why?  Well, as you know....

...... Spiffy's rear end was all fixed up nicely after that unfortunate rear-ending incident we had.  But, because of that incident, the chrome frame around the license plate was somewhat bent.  The shop had straightened it out somewhat - but not well enough to please Poppa - so he straightened it, cleaned it, and then cleaned the plate before putting it back on.  But that wasn't all he was doing!

He cleaned up my palm tree frame from the front plate as well, and then he put it back on Spiffy.

But even that wasn't all he was doing............

Can you see anything different?  Probably not, I'll show you a close-up............

See those two pinstripes leading off the side vent?  They weren't there before!  We noticed quite a few other Ford Escapes around, close in colour to Spiffy - and in a Wal-Mart parking lot that was sometimes an issue!  I kept complaining about not being able to spot Spiffy easily - unlike Zippy - who Poppa had put pinstripes on to make her stand out from other vehicles.  He got tired of my whining and decided to fix it for me!  This is the result!  Just in case you missed it.........

Here is the other side!  What else has he been doing?  Here is a clue......