Good news or not?

So the good news is that broken sprinkler valve wasn't so ... uh ... broken after all. We screwed it back on and it didn't leak. We ran the sprinklers -- it didn't leak. We ran them for a week -- it doesn't leak.

So the good news is our grass won't be totally dead, but the bad news is we're wasting water watering grass we HATE.

Great. Only 1.5 seasons until we can do something about it. I can't wait for phase 1.