Trouble with a capital T, and that rhymes with P and that stand for POOL

I'm talking about a mud pool. Like a 6-ft-deep mud pool.

Monday night our sprinklers were tested and working great. Tuesday afternoon, KC came by to hook up all the wires to all the zones in the control box, and the sprinklers were still working well. And then he and Mark noticed that there was a large amount of water right above where the main control box was buried way down deep. They kept digging and digging, and they kept finding deeper and deeper trouble. It turns out that the pipe we laid 3 years ago prior to our sideyard being covered in concrete steps had cracked somewhere, and water was leaking.

They shut off the water and came up with a quick solution. We had enough left-over PVC pipe to bypass the underground pipe. They glued a new pipe together, hooked it up at the water supply, hooked the other end up at the main control box in the backyard, and no more leak! For now we have PVC running OVER the stairs, and we will need to have some plumbing fixed in the basement in order to provide a new water supply out the back of the house. But that can wait. We needed water today for the hydroseed. It's not pretty, but it works.

We were just saying that things had gone way to smoothly with the sprinkler system.