Here's some beginner advice to other beginners...as soon as you have trees you've put time and energy and $$ into, save your pennies for a timer, tubing, and some soaker hose, and put in a drip system so that your trees are well-watered throughout the heat of summer. I put one in last week, and it is running very well, ready for me to disappear into the hospital for my surgery rotation.
Anybody interested in some pics? My system is probably more complicated than it needs to be, but we have some odd constraints that I wanted to work around. That and I'm a neurotic gear head. Probably aren't many of those around here.
If there's some interest, I'll put together some pictures and do a bit of show-and-tell with suggestions of add-ons and things that can be done without for those on a budget. If there's not much interest, more time to tinker with my trees.
-Jason.