{"id":2161,"date":"2025-04-18T07:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T13:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2025-04-18T07:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T13:32:16","slug":"sprinklers-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/18\/sprinklers-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprinklers ON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I turned the sprinklers on and they have been watering away for the past week or so, lawn is looking great and then THIS!  Snow and cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It got down to 29.8 degrees in my yard last night (Or actually early this morning) so I went out and checked out the back-flow valve outside.  It is cold but happy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ran a zone for 10 minutes just to keep water flowing because moving water will not freeze.  Not going to re-winterize them, I am building a &#8216;freeze&#8217; schedule now to run them for 3 minutes each hour the temperature is below 32 degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A little overkill, but hey &#8211; it is better than draining and redoing this again in 3 days. Loving our yard, and we it just got aerated YESTERDAY! *Perfect* timing for some moisture!  Yeah baby!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lisa and I have been working on the weeds in the rock and mulch area, seems that is a never-ending job but this place is beautiful &#8211; and it takes some effort to maintain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I went to the gym for the first time yesterday, muscles hurt that I did not even know I had. My schedule is every other day for now, I am scheduled with a trainer next week &#8211; so we will see what they recommend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I turned the sprinklers on and they have been watering away for the past week or so, lawn is looking great and then THIS! Snow and cold. It got down to 29.8 degrees in my yard last night (Or actually early this morning) so I went out and checked out the back-flow valve outside. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}