Jane’s got them—link to her site (The Captain And Lime) on the left sidebar. You can see the sterling plumbing job done by the guy who installed the sprinklers (it deserves to be on the Kludge Lol site)—and the pile I’m having to move because the guys we hired to strip the lawn could neither run the machine properly nor follow common-sense instructions about where to put the grass pile. I gave up and told them put it where it is—but it can’t stay there. So I’m moving the whole thing, while Jane rakes up the rest of the grass mat that they didn’t run the machine well enough to reach.
If you want to see pix of the yard work…
by CJ | May 12, 2010 | Journal | 13 comments
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Don’t you HATE cleaning up messes that you were hoping to avoid by hiring pros to do the job?
I rarely hire pros but when I do I now ask for references. Ten years ago a guy that I hired to take down a few small trees by the pool missed said pool by inches, because he was sure he did not need to tie it off….it was a small tree but big enough to destroy the pool…..needless to say I asked him to leave. Prog came back from San Francisco and we finished the job.
Cold and rainy here….we actually had a fire last night to warm things up…..more like our usual springs here….cold and dank!
Kludge sprinkler systems seem to be SOP. Ours was put in by the builder (sub-contractor, of course), and it is a Rube Goldberg device underground. At least, most of it was buried a bit better than yours, which only means that you have to dig deeper when it leaks. 🙁
My favorite kludge sprinkler system belonged to a friend – it was mostly schedule-A PVC, just under the grass. And the guy who did it also bent the pipes rather than spring for three more elbows. We found a leak clamp on the (somewhat squashed) pipe at one place, also – that’s something intended for steel pipe!
(We were digging it up – well, given that it was hardly buried, ‘digging’ isn’t quite right – because my friend was tired of finding leaks after he mowed the grass.)
Goodness. What a mess. I hope you didn’t pay them to much. I wonder when the contractors are going to appear in some form in a story….
I wish my boys and I could be up there to help you with the lawn. (they’re all in their 20 so they’d be good help.)
It’s just going to be slow and steady work. Everybody needs a hobby, eh? Mine seems to be hauling 100 lb rolls of wet sod here and there about the lawn, and rescuing worms from bait shops.
My brain is fried this morning. I had a sudden image of a commando raid on a bait shop.
For some reason I put rescuing worms and Bloom County’s NIGHT OF THE MARY KAY COMMANDOS together.
Ummmmm…one hesitates to ask what you were doing last night. 🙂
I teach in an innercity high school and always ask my students the following question if they exhibit actions similar to the oones you are describing Berry:
“too much tequila last night?”
I’m an iced tea totaler! I swear! I ignored TV in favor of EXPLORER last night!
Last night, I was thinking about what I did with some old cartoons from the 80’s and which ones I want Shejidan to see! Also wondering if I could draw Bren. He would be a perfect victim of my cartoon alter-ego and wondering IF I want you all to see any of those. Unlike the RCMP, she never gets her man!
I just had this flash image of CJ in commando gear in a bait shop. I figured you all would understand better if I mentioned Bloom County. I was thinking about the office pot luck preparations this morning. I’m on the setup/cleanup crew. It was small and very nice.
Author involved in bait shop commando raid. “Free! Free the worms! Be free! Save yourselves! Run! Er, Wiggle!”
So, how were Opus and Calvin and Hobbes involved? Oh, a cardboard box transmogrifier, naturally.
It has that earthy realism, you see….
OK, Back online with power after having it knocked out this morning at 0530. We had a small tornado touch down in town and we were about half a mile from the fringe of the damage. Lots of fences down, cars upended, trees broken, but no-one hurt. It was an itty-bitty tornado, F0 or F1 with winds 60-90 mph for a short while. If anyone knows Tulsa the area most damaged is between 51st and 61st, from Yale west to Riverside.
mmm. Glad you’re ok. Worst we ever get up here is F1, usually just dust devils. The instincts are still there, however. I went outside to look at one storm, inhaled the air and said to Jane, “Smells like tornado weather.”
Sure enough, a little F1 immediately hit the Air Force base outskirts.
Once an Okie, always an Okie, in that department.
Everybody take care, for sure.