An Incontinent Truth

I am among those Dallasites who have yet to modify their lifestyles to mirror the climate in which they live. A climate which gets miserably hot in the summer and which is, simultaneously, a rather dry place for those same summer months, should not have large, thirsty spreads of grass for lawns. But Dallas has vast lawns...and those vast lawns are, by and large, covered in grass that need daily watering when the temperatures climb into the mid 90s, at minimum. Temperatures here regularly hit that point and much higher, wilting and killing any grass that is not fastidiously watered and manicured and treated like the sensitive little thing it is. So, we Dallasites use extraordinary volumes of water to keep our lawns looking
nice.

I am not a fan of this sort of conspicuous irresponsibility, but the costs of replacing thirsty grass with attractive, but not-so-thirsty, plants is astronomical. I would like to install xeriscape gardens in my yard, along withg a highly-focused irrigation system that would be assured of keeping the soil beneath and around my house at a moisture level that will help avoid problems with my slab foundation. We have experienced foundation problems before; they are ugly, expensive experiences!

All of this consideration of my own ecological behaviors leads me to this: I am looking forward to seeing An Inconvenient Truth. The local chapter of Drinking Liberally sent an email recently, saying how wonderful it was for the group to go to the film...but the author kept referring to it as "An Incontinent Truth."