Today's Fun

Yesterday afternoon we noticed that we had little water pressure inside the house.  As it was Sunday, we didn't really have much time to investigate the quandary and so we checked the basement for water problems (there were none) and headed back to church.  While we were gone, the problem didn't get better, surprise, surprise.  By bedtime, we had even less water pressure.  I was having visions of new pumps and big bills.

This morning I called our local well guy who happens to live a quarter mile south of our house.  So, he made us his first stop of the day.  He popped open the well pit and looked at the pressure switch and said, "Well, I think we found the problem!"  The switch was very rusty and corroded.  But, as he checked it, it was still functioning.  So, he checked the pump...it was still running.  He asked me, "Do you have any water running inside the house?"  I replied that nothing major unless one of the kids had flushed the toilet or something.  We checked the basement...nothing.  He then asked if we had other hydrants.  Well, there are three.  We walked out to the first one on the north side of the property and we were 50 feet away and we were walking in water.  I said to Garrett, "I think we found our problem."  Sure enough, several feet from the hydrant, we had a cute little spring bubbling up from the ground.

Garrett looked at my dad and said, "Well, I see you have a backhoe here.  I've got two other people without water.  If you dig up the line and run into trouble, call me and I'll come back and give you a hand this afternoon.  You should probably replace the pressure switch while it is unburied too."  Then the guys then checked out the possibility of eventually updating the well and moving some things into the house and then the well guys took off.

So, Dad called the owner of the backhoe and Dave came right over and dug up the line, and they capped it off.  They changed the pressure switch and water was restored to the house before 1.  The repair cost me nothing initially...G'pa had an extra pressure switch in the garage and Dad and Dave did all the work.  I may have to pay a service call for Garrett's time, but that will be nothing as bad as I was envisioning last night.

Then, Dad and Dave set to burning the pile of brush they have been accumulating for the past month or three.  They moved quite a bit of the construction stuff left in the barn foundation to the pile and found all sorts of other things to burn also.  We had a huge fire that intrigued the kids.  They could hear it from the house.  It was pretty impressive.  At 11 pm, it is still burning nicely.

So, that was our day...water spring, well pits, backhoes, mud, and big fires...excitement, excitment.