{"id":648,"date":"2007-06-15T04:58:46","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T08:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/06\/15\/fun-with-sprinklers-not\/"},"modified":"2010-10-05T00:42:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T04:42:33","slug":"fun-with-sprinklers-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/06\/15\/fun-with-sprinklers-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with sprinklers &#8211; not!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>Chris and I are both experimenting with lawn watering the other night.    He was wiped out because he&#8217;s covering another persons shift at work for the whole month so he&#8217;s getting up at 5 a.m. every day.  I&#8217;m still not feeling well, what else is new, and that&#8217;s made me pretty much useless as far as getting anything done outside goes these days.<\/p>\n<div class=\"912745ff53504cd4aef8ff3ef7b9aa95\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* gardengrows_300x250inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4054669721\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>So &#8230; we pulled out the sprinkler system that we have.  We actually haven&#8217;t been very happy with lawn sprinklers as none of the ones we&#8217;ve purchased in the past have worked very well with our not very powerful water system.<\/p>\n<p>Chris hooked up one of our older small sprinklers after work and the darn thing swung around pathetically and only watered perhaps a 6 foot diameter of lawn and garden.   It&#8217;s going to be thrown out or perhaps if we have a garage sale it will be one of the items that we put out for that.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>So, seeing how bad that sprinkler was and after calculating that it would take about 8 hours to water the front and back Chris got in the car and went to Home depot to get us a new sprinkler.<\/p>\n<p>Miracles of miracles he actually found one that works!  The new one has a good range and seems to work well with our low water pressure.  It still took about two and a half hours to complete the job but considering that neither of use were up to standing outside in the garden, in the heat, for a minimum of an hour and a half we&#8217;re happy.<\/p>\n<p>I still prefer to water my plants by hand.  Well with a hose, but you know what I meant!  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He was wiped out because he&#8217;s covering another persons shift at work for the whole month so he&#8217;s getting up at 5 a.m. every day. 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