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[Chuck Saunders]

We used to do that to water our back yard in Albuquerque in the mid 60's.
But we only did it like once a month for June, July and August at the most.
We would run around in the standing inch or two of water in our underwear
and thought it was the most fun.
Chuck Saunders
KC MO

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:30 PM, <Edchainsaw at aol.com> wrote:

> when I was a  young man   ( just out of high school )   we as a family made
> the grand tour  from  Terre Haute to  Phoenix   and back--   while there we
> visited   Dad's  retired Dentist   a  Doc Sipple.   we  stayed with him all
> day  while our camper was being  repaired.
>    His yard had  irrigation in the back    and  green rocks in the front..
>  at that time -- I don't know if  they still do this--  but  at  3pm  they
> flooded the  ditch  in his back yard basically flooding the entire  yard
> for  a few hours ---  and then  let it drain back  out ..
>  I myself wandered why  they wasted the water like that --- the  green
> rocks didn't have to be mowed...
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