Wondering Wednesday

Today I'm starting a weekly day with a question. What better day to do it than Wednesday?

I want to know what "grinds your gears"?

Today for me it is a sprinkler system that we paid $6000.00 (we paid by zone and we have 18 zones)(we have 2 acres to water)that doesn't cover and water our entire lawn. Once the nice and hot days of summer arrive our lawn starts to look like junk! We have been running each lawn zone starting at 1am and the whole process finishes up around 10am. Then I've resorted to running the system mid-day starting at 1pm and just running the lawn zones for times a week. I have to say that the installer worked really hard and I have to admit that it was a very large job... BUT since we paid by the zone I would think that each zone would do a significant job covering and watering the lawn completely. There are a few spots that get double water where the sprinklers overlap and those area are kinda lush... but there are some serious dry spots (those spots I can stand in while the sprinklers are running and not get wet). We have to run some of the zones for more than 30 minutes just to get the lawn damp. Ugggh...We are on a well so our water bill isn't the issue. For me it is the constant running of the sprinklers and then the one sprinkler that we bought at Ace Hardware...(the rotary cheep-o kind) that I have to drag around the yard to get the dry and dead looking spots watered. With that sprinkler it does cover a large circle... but I have to leave it running for like 4 hours in one location to even make a difference. On Monday I was adjusting the cheep-o movable sprinkler to a spot in the front yard and it has a cheep-o plastic stake that it attached to... well as I was pushing it down into the soil I about slipped and fell on my face in the yard. I was on the phone at the time (I don't think that had anything to do with it...:-) But I got a face and shirt full of sprinkler. Good thing I didn't have any mascara on yet or I would have looked like a black runny mess of a face.

That is what grinds my gears today and I look forward to seeing who out there has anything to post about what grinds their gears. If you do a post make sure to leave me a comment so I can come and check out what grinds your gears... or just leave me comment ( I do love some comment love).