My Trip to Home Depot
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Raising Kids on the Spectrum
By Stephanie Carmel

It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.
~Author Unknown

My son Connor is autistic, and he loves to watch flowing water. Which means that in the warmer months, he likes to have the hose going in the back yard for hours at a time. While I have no issue with his love of water, it does elevate our water bill. Not to mention creating all that mud in our small yard.

One night I brainstormed a setup so that Connor could have flowing water, but we wouldn’t need the hose to be constantly running. I pictured two small reservoirs — buckets, maybe — connected by a gutter. Then a recirculating pump could take the water from the lower reservoir and feed it back into the top one, so he would have a continuous stream of water flowing down the gutter. (Keep reading)