http://youtu.be/KyL-UrFKlzQ What NOT to do. This may be the most criminally ignorant of any DIY irrigation video ever produced. This dude lays out an array of garbage purchased from the big box store, and claims for around $200 you can build your own sprinkler system. Follow his advice and watch your investment turn into thousands of dollars of major repairs, possible property damage, a huge water bill, and the good chance of contaminating your neighborhood’s water supply. Fortunately most of […]

On Sunday, Nov. 3 I touched down in Austin and hooked up with my  friends Mike and Vivian, ex-Seattleites now living in the Hyde Park neighborhood.  They agreed to house me for a week out of the kindness of their hearts, or the lack of sense in their brains. Crusty had come down the dusty trail to see all the other Crustys in the water biz. From the Wiki page, IA in a nutshell: “The Irrigation Association (IA) is a […]