Ah. I think they're all pretty much made in China these days. About the only thing American left are the seeds, and don't be surprised if Ferry-Morse gets bought out. Our homesteading/micro-farming has gotten to the point where I finally wised up last year. There was too much to just 'water', so I built my own irrigation system. I ended up purchasing a four outlet gang valve, about 250' of medium duty garden hose, a bag of male and female adapter fittings, and several oscillating and omnidirectional sprinklers. I ran lengths of hose along borders, edges, and under porches where they'd be out of the way of the lawn mower, cut each length to fit, spliced in an adapter, attached the proper sprinkler based on what/where they were watering, and now I just turn on the main valve - the pressure is pre-adjusted on each outlet of the gang valve. The only fly in the ointment is the Catawba grape arbor in the back corner of the yard - I actually have to get off my dead keister and drag a hose a hundred feet. LOL It is dry down here. Dry, dry, dry. And hot. We thought we were going to get a little relief from T.S. Debby, but, just like my wife, she changed her mind at the last minute and screwed up my plans. *Hmph*
Women.
"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920