sprinklers (%$#%@)

Ahh sprinklers...for homeowners I could leave it at that and they would empathize completely with what Ryan is doing, however for the rest of you at the beginning of the summer each year is the fun job of seeing which sprinklers have made it through the year, and which have broken. In our case there are usually more broken ones than ones that are fixed. Here is Ryan working on one of the many that he had to fix. The fun part was the girls followed him around the whole time even Brooklyn trying to do what they could to help.

Here Brooklyn is giving Ryan a part that she thinks he should use to fix they pipe. (too bad it was wrong.)
So she tried again, and this time got it right. I am so greatful for the patience that Ryan shows with the girls when they are following him around like this.

****Just as a side note this was the easy fix we later found out that we had to fix one by digging a whole new line to bypass an area that was bad. This took roughly two weeks to dig the trench fix the pipe and put everything back together. (thanks to Tiff and Nate who came over to help us dig the trench and put in the new line.) I can only hope that the sprinklers will get better over the next few years as we slowly replace all of the bad ones with better new ones, but only time will tell.