Sprinklers!

I have said to many this year that I haven't had to schedule my sprinklers to come on at all because it's been so wet this year. Really, I've only manually run the sprinklers maybe 8 times total this season. During the late summer and early fall, as the temps were more reasonable and we could open our windows at night, sometimes I heard a neighbor's sprinklers come on at 4AM. Each time I heard this I wondered why he would saturate his lawn further when we've received so much rain.

Well, this morning, I had to go to the church because a fire alarm went off and the firemen needed someone responsible for the property to come on site and reset the fire alarm and a breaker. There was, thank God!, no fire. False alarm.

However, the real mystery unraveled when I returned home. As I pulled up, it appeared that my driveway was wet. It was a clear night - so, no rain. I initially thought my neighbor's sprinklers were on, but there was no way that his sprinkler could have reached that far. While I was initially in denial, I eventually had to admit that our sprinklers were on! All that time, I thought I didn't have the sprinklers set to come on except through manual means. But, do you know what? Those sprinklers at 4am? Mine - the whole time.

In my defense, the sprinkler control box is of an ancient origin and difficult to master. Oh, well. Humility is a good thing. Apologies, of course, go to my kind neighbors for how I saturated the edge of their lawns and somehow blamed them for it. Thanks for putting up with the newbie on the block.