It leaks a little…

Whoosh!

No, it leaks a lot. Mostly because the valve didn’t get shut off after the irrigation system blow out last fall before one unsuspecting Mr. Darcy turned on the water.

I might have laughed.

In my humble opinion, the best thing about being married to a parks manager now that ACHS owns Ticknor, is his deep knowledge of irrigation systems. After a few trips up and stairs, some muttering and wrenching, a bit of twiddling and tweaking, maybe even a little fairy dust (it may have been pocket lint, we will never know) zones 7-14 squirted to life. At the wrong time and partly hitting the driveway, but let’s take one success at a time, shall we?

The second trip fixed the ghost programs in the system, discovered the issues with the valves for the lowered numbered zones, and made a plan for a third trip armed with a shovel.

This, my friends, is where ACHS buys our amazing volunteers cookies and tells them they’re wonderful. Everyone has a different threshold of satisfaction vs frustration and Mr. Darcy literally hit his when the shovel smacked into six inches of rock around the valves.

I will back away from the story the same way I backed away from the scene of the incident. The moral? Please use wood chips as mulch.

Image is the gizmo Mr. Darcy thought we would need to replace but miracles happen and now it’s just documentation.