For us the rhyme should be:Rain, rain
Stay today and
please come back
another day.
It rained yesterday for the first time in a very long time. There's a slight chance that we could get a little more rain today too. Heaven knows we need it. That means I don't have to spend my entire morning and evening switching out hoses and moving around sprinkler heads in our low-tech sprinkler system. Hooray!
We're concidered to be experiencing "sever drought conditions" here in TX. And as far as I can tell, we have been since 1998. That's not good. That means we've had one year more of drought than Joseph of Egypt. Luckily there wasn't a famine to go with our drought. We're pretty lucky with our piping technology that we can borrow water from other regions if it comes down to that. We're also pretty lucky our food comes from all over the country (and world for that matter).
I've decided, though, that because of this incredible technology and lack of personal starvation and reprecussions, there are a lot of schmos out there that don't understand what a drought really means, and they don't follow the watering restrictions and guidlines. Like they have water to waste. In a near by county there recently was a fire and not enough water in their city's water tank to put it out. They had to pipe water in from a different city to keep the damage to a minimum. Wisen up people!
That picture above really is what the ground looks like here if it's not been watered by sprinklers. There are even a few spots in my own yard that look like that, and I water as much as I'm allowed! It makes for shifty house foundations and there are a number of houses here that have problems with cracking foundation because of it....
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sorry this post was a little bo-ring.
Actually I thought the picture to be quite interesting.
so, now you know why yuor neighbor was giving you the evil eye for installing your sprinkler and testing it with REAL WATER on a non-water day. now you are the one with the evil eye.....
haha. it's true. but we were brand new and the city had not yet sent out the guidlines. Plus we were only 2 days into the water restriction! One neighbor said they watered and watered all day on May 31st just because they could.
We really did not know we were violating. These people are doing it more than a month into the restriction and the city's sent out 2-3 letters telling us why and how to water.
The guy automatically called the water cops. Why couldn't he have come over and made sure we knew the rules and why there was a restriction?
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