Fountain of Youth??

I was doing my housewifely chore of making dinner when the Mister stuck his head in the front door and shouted that he needed a towel, and he needed it quick. He was freezing. 

I grabbed a towel and handed it to my somewhat drowned hubby. From head, almost to toe, he was soaked. His glasses were peppered with drops of water. His shorts were soaked. 

He grabbed the towel, and ran back out into the yard saying he had to find his pipe wrench and turn off the water to the house at the street. 

Evidently, he decided to tackle and replace, a non-functional spigot on the end of a PVC pipe in our side yard. The handle/knob of the faucet was missing, and he thought that this pipe was not functional. So he'd replace the spigot and then determine where to turn the water on to this specific pipe. 

WRONG! He began to remove the spigot and discovered there WAS water there. Perhaps 90 lbs of pressure! 

Luckily he was not standing in front of the spigot when it "blew"!

The water spewed out, quickly soaking the ground. I'm sure the grass weeds loved it! 

Once the water was turned off, the decrepit faucet (seen on the right) was replaced with a shiny new model.

The main water valve to the property was turned back on and we had water at the spigot that could now be turned on or off!