We had an interesting and tiring weekend. Life on the farm is always so...unexpected! We had an apartment built in May/June timeframe last summer and that is another story but once we had people in the apartment we found the septic system um... shall we say inadequate. Glenn took a long plunger-like thing and tried to find the stoppage but to no avail. When Cyndi moved out, actually before I guess we had a septic man come out and check into it and found that Loyce, the original owner had done a home made septic system – eew! Anyway, we finally got to fix it this weekend. We rented a large piece of equipment called a Ditch Witch which had a huge –what looked like a giant chain saw – on the back. Glenn actually had fun driving it. Anyway, we discovered that when Oscar worked on the apartment someone evidently made a large gash in one of the large pipes leading away from the building and so that was another problem in its self. We worked as a team because I had to make sure that Daddy was going deep enough to bury it.
After the tractor stopped working and we had to call someone to come out we stopped for a short while and drove to Tomball to see Santa. Nathan was sure he would go right up to Santa and set on his lap and for the 3rd year running he wouldn’t even come close to him but now because Nathan was scared of Santa, Mandy wouldn’t come close either! Oh well.
Back to the trench and we had to measure along the line, it is 120 feet and make sure that the pipe was at an angle downward but it also had to meet up with the existing pipe that we are going to connect into from the house. It was a lot of measuring, shoveling in dirt, leveling it and then putting in the pipe and then using a level to make sure it was at an angle. It took us all day but it is accomplished. I would love to put pictures here of Glenn running the big trencher but I still am not sufficiently knowledgeable to put pictures in here.
Also, Nathan had his first piano recital Thursday night. He did great and had a wonderful time. He looked so grown up and was very confident in himself and his playing. We were very proud of him.
Now, on to the rest of Christmas with decorating, cooking, wrapping, etc. Kathie will be home on Friday and Cyndi and family are going to come around New Year’s. We are looking forward to all of them being home again.
