3 September 2007
The difference between April 1 and Sept. 1:
I started the yard-watering season with great care, using two different sprinkler heads for the lawn, setting them carefully so they wouldn't water the walkways. I dutifully moved them in a fixed pattern with fixed timing, letting patches soak up the sky-juice, wetting the corners ... Twice a week, obeying the drought/save water laws.
Tonight, as I hauled the hose from the bushes to the lawn I realized that for the last couple of weeks, I've put the biggest sprinkler head on, positioned it in the middle of the grass-patch and turned it up high, watering sidewalk, driveway and other non-vegetable matter. What's more, I no longer care about the water waste.
I want back all the time I spent this summer hauling the hose.
I want watering and mowing season over.
Enough already.
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