It’s late October … do you know where your sprinklers are?<\/b><\/p>\n
Signs of the times, the turning of the seasons. <\/i><\/p>\n
Had the sprinklers blown out. This was an utterly unknown concept to me when I was in California. Never thought of it. Never heard of it.<\/p>\n
But you gotta do it. If you don’t, it makes for an ugly spring, with much excavation and replacing of PVC pipe.<\/p>\n
So we did.<\/p>\n
If you haven’t, do you need to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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