Return of the missing hose

Our dearest and beloved members,

I have some very important news to share with you today… but this is quite the announcement.

Let me take you back, only with a few months, when I joined the community.

The beloved Mayor wrote a heartbroken letter to Dear Abby regarding a 50m yellow hose pipe. He explained that this hosepipe was used for watering his vegetable garden and he desperately needed to find it, it was summer, the soil was as dry as a bone and not even the cats dared to walk to close in fear of burning their feet on this barren piece of earth.

The distress call from the Mayor has driven him to near insanity, I have lost a 50m hose pipe! – how could he have lost a hose, this big, and YELLOW!!!! A shocking colour and indeed easy to spot in any dark shed. This yellow hose is like a ray of sunshine in the dark, lighting up the room and well, supposedly, the vegetable garden.  

Since the yellow hose was on holiday and travelling all across the globe in my mind, the temptation to pester the Mayor about his missing hose intact, I have thrown the topic to him quite often. In my defence, it was fun. I created posts and even a picture of a travelling hose with popular holiday destinations. He cracked up and I am almost certain, everyone in the community for that matter.

The Mayor did not appreciate my joking and pestering too much and in the end he was forced to buy a new hose. Well, he needed something to water his vegetable patch and grow his beautiful tomato plants – which he hasn’t mentioned at all. (Did they die because the new hose was not effective?)

Well today (28 August 2025), almost 6 months later I received a message at exactly 12:49:

“I FOUND IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

I responded in Fruitloop fashion: “Found it? What did you find?”

His response: “He hose”

My guess was a keyboard gremlin and it should have been “THE hose” but that doesn’t matter because the Mayor was over joyed and overly excited about the return of his beloved and dear friend.  Maybe his tomatoes will have a better chance of surviving now.

So my fellow residents, fruitloops and readers, I have lost my ammo to pester the Mayor, his sanity is back to normal and the famous travelling hose has returned.

Mr. Mayor – I apologise for giving you a hard time, laughing at your distress and keeping it as ammo BUT I will find something new! Hopefully soon.

Is there a moral or a life lesson to learn from this story? Of course!

Everything that is lost, can be found.

If you feel a little lost today, you are able to pick yourself up and find yourself. If you have lost something special, stop searching for it, you will eventually find it (even if it takes 6 months), in the least expected place and all will be good in this world again.

Best

Fruitloop