Dig It

Here are two pictures of the same house. However, there are differences between the two pictures. Can you spot the differences? Look closely, some are not that easy to spot.

Have you found the differences yet? Take your time....

That's right, the grass was mowed between the time the two pictures were taken!

Okay, I'm funning with you. We're having major sewage line work done at the homestead this week. We had standing water in our shower and tub last week so we called the plumbers to come out and clean out the line, which they did and things were draining great...for a bit over two days. Then the water backed up into the house again and we called again. It was determined that the huge rains we had last week weren't really the cause but it seemed that our connection to the city main line was knocked off kilter enough over the years to allow seepage into and out of our line. This allowed roots and debris to gather up, and you know what happens next...no flow!! So now we've got our front yard dug up from stem to stern (house to street), getting the entire line replaced...we figured since we were there that we might as well...

We had to bring two different backhoes, on two separate days, to make the hole deep enough to reach the city main, almost 12 feet down! I didn't imagine our sewer line was that deep. I had a chance to view the inside of the old line when a supervisor ran a video camera inside. Kinda reminded me of those National Geographic shows where they run a small robot inside the Egyptian pyramids. We got to see where the stoppage was (kinda gross but interesting at the same time). Anyway, we're getting an entire new line replacing the old one and it's a thicker PVC pipe which should thoroughly repel any invading roots. Plus it's stronger and shouldn't be messed up by any ground movement since the land in this neighborhood is clay-based and tend to contract and expand a lot depending on conditions. Hopefully by tonight, we'll be able to run the showers, toilets, and washers at the same time and have no problems with drainage. Then I'll have to spend some time smoothing out the front yard with all the dirt that'll be spread around. I'm so looking forward to that.


This is our brand-new lap pool! We're going to have a diving board installed in the deep end.