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Re-purposing Used Wine Corks

Use #35637

When the exterminator inadvertently (mainly because we didn't tell him) drills through a sprinkler line while doing a termite treatment...

Cut the pipe and temporarily (about a month) plug both ends with used wine corks until you can get around to installing a patch.

Before
(note clever use of Opal Winery and Chateau Morrisette Winery corks)
(the orange thingee is a tablecloth clamp that was lying around)

After
(but before re-burying)