Bisti Faithful

If you've been following our sprinkler saga on Facebook, we got them to work tonight - sort of. Let's recap...

We decided that we needed to turn the sprinklers on. The neighbor told us that we had to turn the water on in the basement.

Sunday night, we turned the water on in the basement and then went outside to see how to turn them on outside.


We briefly searched and found the control box in the garage. The display on the box said, NO PWR. So, Joe said that there as a lithium battery back up in the box...off he went to get a new lithium battery.

Install new batter, display read - NO PWR. hmmm. Curious. So, we proceed to come inside and do research on possible causes, etc. Joe asks if we own a voltmeter. Really, Joe??? A VOLTMETER????

We bicker for a little while and then email a sprinkler company to contact us to come out.

Monday comes and goes, we still stew over it. Our grass is quickly getting browner (I think it was cut too short).

MONDAY 9:30 PM. I am in bed (unable to fall asleep b/c of impending work the next day) and remember that there is a plug not plugged in hanging from the garage wall. I traipse downstairs out into the garage in my jammies (read that as long t-shirt)...brush off the plug and plug it in...EUREKA...THE DISPLAY HAS POWER.

Tuesday we were too busy to do anything about it. Nobody called us from the sprinkler company anyway.

Fast forward to Wednesday night. We finally get outside to try it out. Joe set the program for the sprinklers...they actually sort of worked...except for one.

Again, thankfully our neighbor "has a guy" who can replace the head on the one sprinkler. He was going to call him for us.