Talk to the Goat
Jamie, you have my full support and I'll start with houses in the west end. Also, I'll pick up some overtime at work this weekend, we could always use the bail money.
You're not exempt just because you butter me up. Keep your hose to yourself and all will be good.
Sprinklers are annoying. Personally im up for concreteing over the lawns. What is the point of a front lawn anyway? no one sits out front having a bbq......'mmmm the fumes from the cars made that burger really tasty'.....so just what purpose is it serving?....And if you do feel you need lawn out the front then just lay astroturf, not only does it look like grass (well kind of) but its low maintenance and when it rains heavily you can still park your car on it.
You go girl!
People forget that water is a non-renewable resource - there is only so much to go around. Here in Australia, each day we are reminded through advertisements not to waste water, and how to reduce water consumption. Most major cities in Australia have water restrictions and large portions of our country is in severe drought,(I think that if you want to try to farm in a desert, then of course, there are regularly going to be 'droughts') and the news almost daily has a report on which year our drinking water is going to run out and how low our dams are. So it saddens and angers me when I see people who think the water restriction laws don't apply to them and waste water on their grass (and nearby footpaths) when most of the country is screaming for water. Some towns have gone as far as trucking in bottled water and serving drinks in plastic cups to reduce water usage washing glass.
I say, just turn the tap off!
Jamie,
Nicely done.
This reminds me of winter, when those jackasses shovel their driveways onto the freshly ploughed road.
I have the fact that people waste water. Considering that most of our grass is Kentucky Bluegrass anyway, and can live quite happily for weeks without water (they actually grow stronger reaching down into the ground for the wet stuff), I wonder why people even bother watering so often.
Since when is green such a damned awesome colour for your lawn to be?
Fuckers.
J
hahahahaha jamie, you are such a rebel!! oh how i wish i lived in canada to watch this on the news. i hope your raincoat has duckies on it! please post your picture on your blog. 
Glad I don't have a sprinkler 
You forgot to mention that future generations of unwashed students will wear ratty tee-shirts with badly screen printed images of your face. The Goat is the new Che.
Water is there to be wasted, don't you know? It's like any limited resource, you better use it before you lose it and he who waters most, waters best.
Personally, I use 6 sprinklers for every square yard on the lawn, that way I know I have complete coverage.
hey do you think you could send some sprinklers my way? haven't had rain for days, and with the haze & all, it's quite bad in malaysia. i'd be really grateful if i had some sprinklers over my place
While I agree in full that watering your lawn in the daytime is wasting water (we all know that a lawn should be watered in the very early morning or at night, when the sun isn't able to evaporate the water before it hits the soil) I used to enjoy a spray from a sprinkler on a hot, hot day.....
I agree completely, people take things for granted because they have them in abundance. We should all stop and think of a way we could help someone who is not so lucky. Good post Jay!
Well if helps any my kids yell and my husband and I all the time. School teaching kids today about conserving the water. I am no long aloud to use my dishwasher. A side tub/busket thing to soak them first so then it doesn't require so much water to wash them with. LOL I am all for it. I am proud of them.
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What is a bugger?
On really hot days there is nothing I enjoy more on my run than a house with an errant sprinkler to cool me off a bit!
A slightly crazy way to protest, but I definitely approve.
Ooops! That anonymous comment was me!
Yes, it's odd. But damn, it'd sure get some attention!
Now I feel guilty in retrospect for all those wonderful days when my dad used to put his thumb over the end of the hose so we could jump around in the arid Calgary heat. As if present day guilt isn't enough.
As a reluctant gardener with yellowing grass I agree with you to just let grass live as it lives! Despite all of my colleagues telling me it will never survive this Sahara summer we're having, I think they are wrong. I refuse to sprinkle!! So I hope your campaign goes well.
But is this issue about watering or moron people who have no consideration for their fellow human beings?
Liked the Frogger analogy! I don't understand the effort that people make to attain that goal either.
Here in the Arizona desert, we have what is called Desert Landscaping. Most (although not all) have it in their front yards. Made up of pink rocks, and a cactus or two. Very economical. (water wise)
But don't look in my backyard.
Where you will find an elaborate automatic sprinkler system, that douses my bright green lush yard in the late evenings, and early mornings. I very much enjoy my green backyard, and on a regular basis. I can't quite bring myself to feel guilty for it either. (sorry)
But I will be watching in anticipation for your history making demonstration.
3T
Haven't people heard of drip irrigation?
Sheesh..
J
Don't they have water regulation on lawn over in Cornwall? In Vancouver there is, although I guess no many ppl obey that.
It's really annoying to see water overflowing from ppl's lawn, especially when there's a forest fire somewhere in the province.
Nothing like Dostoyevsky on a hot, dare I say oppressive, day.
As a former flood technician, might I recommend some strategy?
If they have those scooped out holes next to their homes for basement windows, put the sprinkler in THERE.
Those suckers pool up, and then WHOOSH the water into the basement, saturating a greater area faster and letting the water wick to greater distances than even the sprinkler waving back and forth would manage.
Even better, toss that sucker into the vent at the top of their eaves - you haven't lived until you've seen a blister in your ceiling that's as big as a sheep containing 100 litres of water... and have to pop it.
Ah, I've loved my life. I'm setting off the fire sprinklers at work tonight, just to protest all their lawn waterings. Thanks Jay!
Heh...remind me when you go on a walk. I'll be sure to turn off the sprinklers first.
I thought you might like this.. I got chrewed by my 10 year old this afternoon for not putting a water sponge in a van before I put water in it. Its a sponge that helps the water not be evaporated so fast...LOL
I went to my boyfriends house and he lives in his brothers house in an apartment....
well I had to dodge his brothers sprinkler and the next door neighbors at the same time, it took alot of coordination, its like an Olympic event!!!!
You are so right!
Waste...of ANY kind...drives my crazy!
Hope your Sketchers dry soon.
The Goat is the new Che!
I love that!
I will completely and utterly support you in your vengeance. DO IT!!
Amen sister. If one MUST feel incined to sprinkle, one would be wise (and polite) to do it very late at night to reduce loss by evaporation and avoid soaking the Goat. No one likes the smell of wet goat.
Learn a valuable lesson, call the cops. Whichever. The important thing is that you satisfy your vigilante impulses.
Vive le Goat! Vive La Revolucion!
Thanks Bree, this is all going to my head of course.
YAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
go jay! go jay! go jay!
damn right!
I've been away too long. If your dog is named Dostoyevsky, that is beyond cool! (My fave book is Crime & Punishment.)
I never understood the H20 the lawn thing either! Entertaining post as always!
And while you're at it, kick those people who wash their driveways and sidewalks with the hose right in the ass. I told one person who was hosing down the road in front of her house that there was a water shortage. I thought she was going to turn the hose on me. What an idiot.
Um..? Jay?
Isn't this the town you described where everyone knows you?
I understand the water rage - but surely you'd be better off starting the crusade in a place you're unknown? at least then you can carry on for longer before you get banged up by 'the man'...
Alternatively you could just dress up as a member of slipknot.
Excepting a tattoo on my back, I like to think that I'm your doppelganger. Dude in the truck could have been honking for me.
Just saying, is all.
Vics, you are too funny. And you are right, I am well known around these parts, which is exactly the point: I'm going to get blamed for it anyway, so I might as well be the perpetrator!
Thinking about this entry made me laugh as I got drenched walking to work this morning! I love irony!
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