Bet it was a good party!
I looked into that stuff...it can run between $10 and $20 a square foot.
Like a knucklehead I parked myself on about an acre and a half of lawn...60,000 square feet!...I may as well cover it in Italian marble or whatever...
We got there in the height of summer it was very hot and dry. The lawn started to look bad. The front had sprinklers but the back did not. So, I am out there watering every day. Thinking, hey it's NC--water is every where, I can practically wring it out of the air.
Well, let me put it is perspective. My highest water bill, ever in Arizona--after filling a pool was about $60. I get my first water bill in NC and it's $400. My husband and I say, "Wow, must be a mistake" We call, short of with a chuckle and are, like, "hey got this water bill, looks like some sort of error". ( it looked to have double charges)
She actually says to us, "You wanna have that big green lawn, well, water is expensive" Apparently we could have paid a couple fo thousand dollars to have some sort of meter installed which would have removed the double charges. I know I am not explaining that very well. I knew, at that point, well long before that, I was not going to be there a day longer than I had to be.