…I’m dealing with more irrigation system issues. Seems like November is always the month for this kind of thing. I just spent $200 to fix the line I tried to fix and fix the connections I didn’t dare try. Last night was a lovely night – a full moon shimmering through high clouds, just the slightest chill in the air. It’s late, and I’m having a wee nitecap on the patio, the only light coming from my $17 metallic blue, 4′ high Christmas tree which gave the patio a soft blue/green corner glow. There’s very little traffic around so it’s really nice and quiet.

And that’s when I hear a soft tricking sound. I’m thinking, it can’t be. I put down my glass, turn my ear, and listen. There it is again – very faint, but definitely a tricking sound. I get up, grab my flashlight, and yup, there it is. The brick border by the big palm tree is wet, as is the grass around the area. I crouch close by the palm tree and listen, hear it again. But it’s so damned faint I can’t pick up the location.

Well, nothing was going to get done about it at that time, and it certainly posed no flood threat to anything but whatever insects might be calling that part of the back yard home, so I called off any further investigation.

Besides, in order to do that I would have had to put on some clothes.

This morning I got up and the brick border looked dry. So who knows? Perhaps that area is still so saturated by the earlier leak and the ground so porous that there was still water moving and it will take a few days for everything to dry out. I sure hope so, because when the days start getting really short and the Christmas season beckons, the last thing I need is a leaky irrigation system and another $200 fix to worry about.