We have been experiencing a heat wave as of late and my garden was beginning to dry up so I decided to water my vegetable patch.
First I had to get one of the gardening hoses that had been put away for winter, then I needed to hook it up but I could not find my usual oscillating sprinkler so I took an old unpredictable sprinkler that, as I remembered, had jerky jets. I succeeded in hooking it up to the hose and the hose to the faucet. But when I turned on the tap…nothing happened. I remembered that the water had to be turned on from inside, so I went back in, down to the basement, turned the faucet just so, to make sure it would not drip onto my clothes drier, then went back up to check the activity, but again… nothing, or rather, barely a trickle…with Sherlock Holmes instincts I followed the hose under the raspberry bushes to the cause of the problem: the hose was bent! I flattened the offending tube and lo and behold a powerful jet hit me in the back! I managed to position the sprinkler so it would water away from the house towards my herbs and spices, and, satisfied, I went back inside to take a nap…
An hour later, I got up and heard a strange noise coming from my living room. I went to investigate immediately and was again hit by a spray of water…in the face this time! The sprinkler has oscillated a full 360 degrees and was now irrigating the inside of my house through an open winndow! The carpet was soaked, there were puddles on the windowsill and the curtains were dripping. I wiped as well as I could but could not really do much about the carpet…nor about the water that was now dripping into the basement storage room…. It may be dry outside but it sure is wet inside!!!