Click me!
I think it’s looking for the mega-shark. (Yes, that’s apparently a real movie)
Actually, no. There’s no real giant octopus in my backyard. It just kind of looks that way. Each morning during the past week, I’ve painstakenly watered my yard in the fourth most painstakenly awful manner. I’ve got a single hose running from my single connection to a single sprinkler that covers just about a fourth of my yard consistently. I set up an alarm on my oven clock and when the timer goes, I go out into the backyard, shut off the water, gingerly march over to the current location, drag it over to its new location (carefully allowing for some overlap), head back to the porch, turn the water on, reset the alarm and repeat the process, at least 4 more times.
Today, however, I decide to splirge on four-way split-connector, three new hoses, and 3 more sprinkler heads. I spent the better part of an hour adjusting the position of each sprinkler individually, trying to ensure that the entire range of the yard is covered. Originally I had intended to cover the whole yard at once…but water pressure is a cruel mistress.
At the very least I can run two sprinklers at a time (each connection has it’s own shut off valve), and cut my watering time in half.
Oh, in case you’re curious, the list of ways to water your lawn in the order of suckage consists of:
- An eyedropper
- A bucket
- Your thumb on the end of a hose
- A single sprinkler
- Multiple sprinkers
- A fully automated in-ground sprinkler system
- Someone else doing it.
I think that pretty much covers it.
