the rule of holes, and a hole in it
Jun. 21st, 2011 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sergebroom"When you're in a hole, stop digging."
So used to say the late Molly Ivins, wise woman of Texas.
There are times though when there's a hole in its logic.
We recently noticed that, when we turn on our backyard sprinkler, the tubes at the bottom of which are the control valves would fill up with water. So, on Saturday, I dug down, and it took time because I had to make sure the chisel bar and the small pickax wouldn't punch a hole thru the horizontal pipes close to the wall, or thru pipes the location of which was buried in the abovementionned dirt. We spotted water leaking off one of valves. I then made an appointment with sprinkler specialists for Monday. On Sunday though, when Sue turned on the sprinkler's leftmost valve, she saw water oozing off the right side of the hole. Perplexed, I dugdugdug some more, all the way to the edge of the lawn and indeed found a leak in the leftmost pipe.
Yesterday, the specialist came and fixed everything. I still have to put the dirt back in the hole and, looking at the heap, I find myself thinking its volume is bigger than the hole's.
So used to say the late Molly Ivins, wise woman of Texas.
There are times though when there's a hole in its logic.
We recently noticed that, when we turn on our backyard sprinkler, the tubes at the bottom of which are the control valves would fill up with water. So, on Saturday, I dug down, and it took time because I had to make sure the chisel bar and the small pickax wouldn't punch a hole thru the horizontal pipes close to the wall, or thru pipes the location of which was buried in the abovementionned dirt. We spotted water leaking off one of valves. I then made an appointment with sprinkler specialists for Monday. On Sunday though, when Sue turned on the sprinkler's leftmost valve, she saw water oozing off the right side of the hole. Perplexed, I dugdugdug some more, all the way to the edge of the lawn and indeed found a leak in the leftmost pipe.
Yesterday, the specialist came and fixed everything. I still have to put the dirt back in the hole and, looking at the heap, I find myself thinking its volume is bigger than the hole's.
