Green lawns are not accomplished without sprinkler systems. It's just not possible. So the yard gnome made my sprinkler electrical box stop working. Lynn looked at it decided it was a fuse and it was fixed (we thought). But no, when it got to the last setting something else went wrong and there was a message of no power to the box. Nothing Lynn did could get that message to go away. This is now 4 days with no water on my lawn in 100 degree heat. We got desperate and Lynn went to King's Nursery for help. Oh, yes, I can get that box...... in a week. No we can't wait that long, our lawn is dying. Well maybe by Saturday. This is when my lovely lawn went to pieces. It was dry everywhere and I started trying to save it piece by piece with 1 sprinkler to my name and only 2 lengths of hose. Needless to say the lawn really got brown and ugly as you can see from the picture below. Not a pretty sight.
Finally the box came, the worker came to put it in and he spent approximately 1 hour putting it in. He programmed it and all was ready. Yeah, my lawn might be saved yet. I immediately turned on the sprinklers (yes, it was past 6 o'clock curfew time for water) and was a happy camper again. Except I forgot about the yard gnomes. They are persistent little pests. I got up at 2:30 a.m. the next morning to go to work thinking my how nice it was to have my sprinklers again. Happy as a lark.....until it got light enough to see and low and behold my sprinklers were not on, never had been on since hitting the fateful #6 setting the day before. I wish I could have found that yard gnome. I would have wrung his neck. So call the yard man again to come see what is wrong now. Five hours later he shows up and finds the cellunoid in the electrical box is bad. Do you have one? Nope, got to order it (of course). This took 4 more days before it would come. Meanwhile still trying to water with my little sprinkler. The guy came and it took him exactly 5 minutes to replace. Happy day, maybe.....I still have to see if it goes clear the cycle this time but low and behold, the water is turned off for some reason and there is no water now. Just my luck. Waited until night to see if there was water and there was so started my sprinkler. Too late to see if it goes through all the cycles, will see in the morning.
In the morning what to my wondering eyes did appear but....................
A sight for sore eyes. Yes, glorious sprinklers every where doing their thing. Never thought one could be so happy for sprinklers that work. Moral of the story: Lawn today, gone tomorrow.
By the way, I also almost got a watering ticket for watering past the curfew time. (I'm not used to having to turn the blasted things off and so was happily going about my business until a knock came at the door. Yup, busted for one lousy time, but he was nice and just warned me.)
