Thursday, June 18, 2009

I did it all!

Our sprinklers have beeb broken for a while now. We tried to water our lawn ghetto style by buying a metal sprinkler--that rusted. We turned on the set of sprinklers that everyone of them worked, but that only reached certain parts of the lawn. So in some parts we had a nice beautiful forests; while in others we had death. Scott tried to remedy this by "flooding" the areas that weren't getting watered. This didn't work for me. I started by making a really horrible map of our lawn. I turned on the sprinklers and let each set have its turn and marked where all the sprinkler were on my "map" (if any of you are lucky enough; you just might get to see my beautiful artistry skills). Anyway I marked about 10 of our 15 sprinklers not working up to par with 2 of them needing to be replaced because they spit 6 feet into the air. I told Scott this and we decided to replace just the 2 needing it desperately. We did that and that fixed like 90 percent of the other ones that needed to be replaced. Some of them were dirty, so we cleaned 'em out and they worked fine. We ended up replacing one next to our house and one in my rose garden because they weren't spraying right. They have these adjustable sprinkler heads where they can spray from 0-360 degrees with just a small adjustment. Now we have all of our sprinkler heads working and will be able to water all of our lawn.

Now we need to figure out how our backyard sprinklers work. They're installed, but not hooked up to the automatic system. Then we can finally get grass in our backyard. What a glorious day that will be!

Scott told me to take full credit for this since I started the project and just pretend that I fixed the sprinklers. So if you talk to us about our sprinklers...I did it all!

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