Another Hot Day

Well above a 100 degrees here. We had a couple of power glitches yesterday, indicating we are near the max for the system. Kicked off the house alarm and couple clocks. Sometimes that is an indication of some person running into a power pole somewhere. We should not have any brown outs, Apache Peak is the local nuclear plant and right down the street is the local gas fired steam plant. It is just sitting there, not even on idle. I think there are even weeds growing in the yard.

So I have been paying close attention to the irrigation system. The well is doing okay but sprinklers have many enemies, snails like to get into the full circle versions. Tiny snails and they grow and distort the spray pattern. Just gotta go in and ice pick them, crush the shells and fish them out. Then the spray patter returns to normal again. he filters clog up with dirt or small grit, need to be cleaned out every once in a while.

The full circle rotary sprinklers are susceptible to the fine sand found in the well water. The silica grinds down the gears in side and they stop rotating, just stay in one place and spray. Since you can not get into them, you do not know what going on - just replace the unit. At least I have got the price down, about half as much.

More hot tomorrow.