I am from a part of the country where most people don’t have sprinkler systems. It rains enough during the year that we don’t have to worry about keeping our lawns irrigated with sprinkler systems and when it stops raining, we are happy because that means that the grass will die and then we won’t have to mow it anymore! Now that I think about it, though, I think that was just my family. I think that there might have been a couple of people in our neighborhood that had sprinkler systems, they just didn’t have to use them very much.
We did, however, have a sprinkler. My mom would use it to water the garden sometimes, but more than anything, it was utilized by us kids, who would often need some cool liquid refreshment on hot days. We would put on our swimsuits, pull out the sprinkler and let the water flow. We would run quickly through the water at first; it was always too cold to handle initially. But soon thereafter we would be splashing in it. Those are good memories. I miss those days. Someday I will have children of my own to let dance in the sprinkler system.