W.F.O.

I was thinking of actually baking this one, but man, who’s got the time?

I have one of those vertically oscillating sprinklers; you know the kind, one row of jets on a bent hollow tube. Well the one I've got is a bit hooped and when the water pressure is too low, it sticks in place and will not resume watering my lawn until someone gives it a good kick or a flip of the hose.

I was attempting the hose flip thing when the whole sprinkler spun upside down and began hovering about three feet off the ground with a good six feet of hose between it and myself. I found that I could control left, right, up, and down movements by simply turning or tilting my wrist, and spent the better part of the next half hour chasing around the my kids, my wife, the dog, pretty much anything that came within range. It was quite a bit of fun and gave me the idea for making W.F.O's

The toys would look like traditional disk shaped U.F.O's and there would be two of them connected to a garden hose on a splitter. Each hose on the splitter would gradually decrease in diameter to create increased water pressure, and each W.F.O. would have its own Nintendo "looking" controller.

By cutting the water pressure to any one of four quadrants in the disk, the toy will move in any direction desired. Controlling the total volume of water will make the toys climb or descend.

I think that kids would have a riot dog fighting these things. They could even come equipped with an oscillating water cannon to shoot at each other.

Fun for the kids, and waters the lawn.