So, first thing yesterday morning John and Josh went out to start the next round of repairs. This of course meant we had no water all day. Not really a problem for us, because we keep about 40 gallons of distilled water on hand at all times. And I can always flush a toilet with water from our "pond" water tank. We also have a Big Berky water filter that's full at all times. I've written about water storage in a previous post.
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| A big muddy mess. |
So, Josh started digging. First, they had to completely remove the pump house. Then Josh started digging. Yucky work, for sure!
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| Starting to dig. |
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| Digging on hands & knees is no fun! |
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| See the exposed pipe? That had to be reattached. |
After he finally dug down to the pipes, he had to find what the problem was. And it looks like the "patch" done last time the pipes were leaking had failed. Crap!
So, we made a trip to the hardware store in Highland. B & B Supply. They had what we needed. Some clamps, some pipe and some Rain or Shine pipe cement. Josh used to work at Lowes in Ellijay, GA so he knew exactly what to look for.
After another hour or so, he got the pipe connected back together. The water works! Hurray!
Of course, you know they had to have puppy dog supervision for this dirty task.
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| Peanut and Cricket |
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| Doggy supervisors |
Thankfully, it was only 85 yesterday and not 100!
John set out a live trap last night and there was that armadillo in there this morning. He won't be digging under our pump house any more! Peanut was excited about t varmit removal. Cricket didn't want anything to do with that stinky weird looking thing. She decided the front porch dog house was a safe place to be.
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