Here comes summer, and here comes voluntary water rationing. A good
thing. Encourages smart water use and proper lawn care. But then
there's this business about your own special watering day. Huh? Let's
see. My neighbor -- the one with miles of PVC pipe under his lawn and
a controller that is perfectly happy drenching things when it's
pouring outside (but hey, only every five days!) appears to use
awesome amounts. Here I am with hoses, sprinkler attachments, $10
water volume regulators/timers, and one or two faucets feeding them
trying to water a lawn by just moving them around day after day the
old fashioned way. Doing it when I can, and where I can.

Now, I really don't need anyone to tell me that because they see one
of my sprinklers on what is not *my* day I'm not rationing properly.
Believe it or not, that has happened! (Now, otherwise I live in a
great neighborhood!)

It must have occurred to someone at the city that the 5-day program
based on your street address number is, for those who might be
inclined to take it seriously (yes, there are some who do), just a
jobs program for lawn sprinkler installers. You've got one day, it
seems they say, to get your whole lawn watered, and having PVC under
the grass and one knob is by far the easiest way to do it! One has to
wonder if this calendar program is sponsored by that industry.

Good for a smile every year whenever I see those silly calendars. One
of these years, maybe I'll get ditch-witch'd and PVC'd and then hang
one of 'em up ...