So the sprinkler is running in the front yard, outside the walled patio. It’s the kind of cheap little metal sprinkler that screws on to the end of a hose. So…given our late experiences with our patio thieves, now I need to wait till the watering cycle ends; then RUN out there, unscrew the sprinkler, and bring in inside.
Or at least hide it somewhere in front.
Nahhh….prob’ly bring it in will be safest.
Can you imagine?? Having to run in circles and jump hoops to keep the local morons from stealing ordinary junk like sprinklers and bird feeders?
The hummers’ feeders are now inside, or, to the extent that some of them are still hanging up, ensconced in the backyard.
I’m assuming that any idiot who would steal a hummingbird feeder — over and over and over again! — will soon come along and steal the water sprinklers off the frontyard hose. So…need to let that water run about 20 or 30 minutes; then run outside and rescue the sprinklers from the front-yard hose. Bring them inside and hide them in the garage.
I ask you: How stupid IS this?
Really, it makes living the the Beatitudes old-folkerie look good: someone else can deal with the rampant morons!
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Y’know…this stuff is making me awfully depressed.
Honestly: what kind of morons steal bird-feeders and lawn sprayers? And do I really want to stay here sharing a neighborhood with jerks like that? Maybe it’s time to move somewhere else!
Problem is, now that I’m old (with a vengeance!), about the only option for moving is to decamp to the Beatitudes: a dreary old-folkerie where they babysit you into the next world. And honestly: that’s not where I want to spend the last months or years of my life!
Horrors!
Truly: I love my home, and I absolutely positively do NOT want to move into an institution. Horrors, indeed!
Yes, sooner or later it no doubt will be inevitable, unless I’m lucky and I drop dead. But I just want to put off that horrible inevitability as long as possible.
Jerk neighbors who dork with your yard ornaments and your sprinkling system sure as hell don’t make that easy! 😀
Hmmmm….. Maybe a strategy might be to put up some small, discreet cameras out there. Let them run 24 hours or so. And see if they don’t capture our perps in the act. If I could catch them, I could report them to the police — or to their daddies — and bring a stop to the shenanigans.