Water
Please stop making these lame, feeble and comically arbitrary attempts to water your lawns.
Also, funny story. Behind the house, we have a creek. The Mrs. and I both thought it would be a good idea to install a pump in the creek and use it to power a sprinkler system (dude, free water!). So, we looked into it. Turns out, we’d have to pay fees, hire a lawyer, file forms with the EPA, take 8X10 glossy photos, have a study conducted, file forms with the local .gov, and juggle three chipmunks on one leg while facing north singing Blame it on the rain. For a portion of a creek that I own. You know, usual bureaucratic crap. And that’s not counting the cost of the pump, piping, power and system. Long and short, we’d have to use the pump system for several, several years to recover the cost involved and for several decades to make up for the lost time. So, we scrapped the idea.
So, I was amused to learn that while I was on vacation the city (my the city) asked us to conserve water. Well, I would have been conserving more if I didn’t have to jump through hoops to keep my grass looking decent. I think I’ll turn on all three bathtubs when I get home. I kid.
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:48 am
That’s what you get for asking. 😛
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:36 am
It has been evident of late that gun bloggers all get the Alice’s Restaurant references, but you still should have mentioned the circles and arrows and the paragraph on the back of those 8×10 glossy photos.
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:45 am
Triti, but do you get the juggling chipmunks reference? 😉
August 23rd, 2007 at 6:43 pm
What about hiring a kid with a bucket? 🙂 No pumps, just manual labor.
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Eh.. if you bury the piping and camouflage the intake well enough, no one will be the wiser.
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Um, you own the land under the creek. You don’t own the water.