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Despite all the rain we got in Seattle, the summers were unusually dry. Lawns suffered if they didn’t receive enough water. Some years ago at our waterfront home I bought into the widespread theory that the grass doesn’t die, it just goes dormant and comes back with the fall rain. So to conserve water and save money I elected to let a big section of lawn go waterless. The result was that some of the lawn came back. I had a smattering of bare patches where the grass didn’t come back and required re-seeding. Prior to my brain-storming session with Carrie, I scribbled a note to call a sprinkler man to adjust my sprinklers. Last year one of my stations wasn’t completely covering the area.
Immediately afterward I pondered my behavior in view of my precarious current situation. In a month I
