He eats and drinks as he talks, spraying his listeners with a fine mist of semi-masticated melon at regular intervals, like a lawn sprinkler on a timer.

Most of these were related to lubrication, but others also included a folding ironing board and a lawn sprinkler.

So they've restricted residential lawn sprinklers and power washers to once a week, and a total ban was to go in effect before the weekend.

In this example, dew, lawn sprinklers, or some other process may have resulted in the wet lawn, even in the absence of rain.