Cat Spring's name, the story goes, comes from a wild cat its early German settlers came upon at a spring, and water has shaped life in this quiet Austin County farm country from the start. Hay meadows and cattle pasture stretch between stands of oak, and dry spells can run long between Gulf rains. Texas Irrigation & Pipe LLC lays the pipe and builds the irrigation that carries water where it needs to go, from a home lawn to the beds and grounds around it. It is buried work, mostly unseen once the trench is backfilled, yet it shows every day in grass that never seems to learn it is August. Out here, where neighbors live far apart and the land runs wide, a water line laid right is something to be quietly proud of.