[GH85Carrera]

Today I had more fun with my sprinkler system that I installed myself 24 years ago. My master gardener wife has taken over many parts of the yard that used to be grass I used to have to mow. One of those areas is the edge of the parking area in our driveway at the edge of the property line. What was a strip of grass just 24 inches wide, is now a garden area. That conversion required different heads to be above the plants and not pop up heads designed for turf.

The area also has the French drain plumbing running through the same little space to the lowest part of the yard. A couple of years ago I changed the pop up heads to adjustable 3 foot risers to get above the various plants she has growing in the summer.

One of our guest came to visit and he pulled up way further than necessary, and bent over the riser spray head. I tried to straighten it up, but no luck, it leaked.

So I had to get a new one, 7 bucks, and figure out how I had made the connection before. As usual, no shortcuts, and full threaded together hard lines buried 2 feet deep. Dang someday I need to get lazy and do it the simple way, but I just had to dig down and find the fitting. It sure is fun trying to unscrew threaded PVC connections at the bottom of a hole where no normal wrench will fit. Of course it filled with mud so I had to run the section for a bit with no head on it to flush the line.

I got it done, the wife is happy and I get to go back to goofing off. It feels like Beer 30!