5-13 It's Friday the 13th.

Are you superstitious?

Well, today is Friday the 13th. Are you superstitious? If you are I wish you luck. We're not. We just think of it as just another day.

When we got back from our trip last fall the grass in one part of the lawn looked really bad, but it was fall and the grass was going dormant and it was time to turn off the sprinklers for the winter so we really didn't worry too much about it. When Larry turned the system on this year he used bowls to capture and measure how much water our system was putting on the grass, he discovered that one area was getting half as much water as the rest of the yard. One of the things he decided to do was to replace all of the adjustable spray sprinkler heads with new, more efficient rotator heads. Our new heads arrived the other day so Larry decided to replace them today. The heads get buried below the grass so first he had to find and mark the location of all the sprinklers. To locate them you turn on the system so the heads popup and then you can mark where they are, he discovered one wasn't popping up at all. That one ended up being really hard to find. The next step was to dig them up a little to get to the heads. Once the sprinklers were dug up he changed out the heads. The last step was adjusting the sprinklers. This took some time but he got them working great. While Larry was replacing the heads Flo and I kept him company. After the heads were adjusted it looked like the heads were covering the grass evenly and these new heads are suppose to use a bit less water. He will need to get his bowls back out and measure the amount of water going on the lawn to figure out if the system is really working correctly and to figure out how long we need to water with the new heads to get the proper amount of water on the grass. Once he knows the correct amount of time he can reprogram the sprinkler controller.

Larry weed eating around the sprinklers

Larry digging out the sprinklers heads

New sprinkler head spraying

Old sprinkler head spraying

Larry and I had finished reading The Devil's Bed and listening to Northwest Angle so we needed to return them to the library. After lunch we loaded Flo into the car and off to the library we went. While we were at the library we found the next Cork O'Connor book in the series we hadn't read which was Tamarack County. We checked it out. We had put the Northwest Angle book on hold last week but since we had listened to it via the audio book we told them to take it off hold. We asked them to put the last Cork O'Connor book on hold, which is Windigo Island. Once the book is returned we will get an e-mail saying it's available for us to check out.

Watching television

 After dinner Larry and I went for a little ride just to get out of house. When we got home we watched the rest of Janis Joplin: American Masters. It was a very good documentary about Janis Joplin's career. Then we streamed Arm Of Lights: Faith and Guns on PBS through the ROKU. It was a good documentary that gave you both sides of the story of guns and faith through six different ministers. We had a very relaxing evening.