We have a Pool!

We came home last night from our Thanksgiving trip to lake side property. JJ walked out back to check the temperature outside and found our sprinklers going full blast and inches of water covering our entire lawn.  Our sunken trampoline was completely submerged and the hatch door was floating open. Exactly  how long they had been going we'll never know but long enough to fill the trampoline pit, our lawn, and pool up in the surrounding rocks. He had to turn the water main off to get them to stop spraying.  Considering they were set to come on at 5am and we came home at midnight-- well --you do the math--I try not to think about which day on our four day holiday the malfunction might have happened.

  I just wish I hadn't been too tired and cold last night to try and snap photos in the dark. We were pleasantly surprised this morning when we woke up and found  the water had soaked into the lawn and is slowly going down underneath the tramploline.

So everyone who wanted us to put in a swimming pool in our backyard, come on over we've got one now!

What? No?   ....We can take the cover off!

Our wall is still soaked from back spray, even 10 hours after turning them off.

The sad thing is after two years not having winter grass. I decided we weren't going one more year without grass during the season the kids are actually outside to enjoy it.   I am ashamed to admit, with it being late in the season, a broken lawn mower and busy schedules- I hired a couple of guys to over seed for us. Unfortunately they weren't the sharpest tools in the shed. A week later, while checking the watering schedule, we found they set it to a 7 day interval schedule not 7 day daily schedule. Our new seedlings had been watered once in the week after they were planted. No wonder we had to chase literally 40 pigeons out of our yard every half hour --the seeds were easy pickings. And although the sprinklers were working fine the days before our trip, some mystery malfunction must have caused them to stay on and so...

 our poor grass seed has been starved, eaten, probably frozen with this cold spell, and now drowned in it's first two weeks of life. It will be a miracle if it survives. I fear we will have a third year devoid of luscious grass for the kids to frolic on. 

But at least we have a pool for them to swim in for the next week.