No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Brian's parents have left for Sweden to pick Uncle Brady up from his mission. Before they left they tried contacting their sprinkler guy to fix a couple of broken sprinkler heads. When they couldn't get in contact with him, they called Brian to see if he would fix them. No problemo. Saturday after work, we headed up to Perry to work on the broken sprinklers.
Brian and Jaxon got right to work but soon encountered numerous problems.

• Problem #1: Tree roots. Quaking Aspen, though sturdy trees and very pretty to look at, have an excellent root system that makes quite a mess....especially with sprinklers. Cottonless Cottonwoods have very thick roots that are also a bear.
• Problem #2: Cable line. What Brian thought was a tree root ended up being the cable line. Luckily, he only cut the protective sheathing and left the cable itself exposed....but not cut.
• Problem #3: Hidden pipe. This by far was the biggest problem. As Brian tried to expose the end of the funny pipe to fix the last of the heads, he took a pic to carefully remove the dirt around the sprinkler lines. What he didn't know was that directly below these lines was another line. Ryker and I had just sat down outside to watch the boys work when Brian hit this hidden line. What we then experienced was nothing short of Old Faithful. Brian had hit the water main. Crap. We all ran for cover as Brian worked to get the water shut off.
• Problem #4: Dirt + Water = Mud
• Problem #5: Mud + Boy = Mess

Jaxon taking a break from all the work to play with his transformer Brian's expression pretty much sums it all up, doesn't it?
The muddy boy
The boy that slept through it all.