More vacation fun

So, here’s what we’re doing on our vacation. That's Dean, standing by what used to be our driveway.

Living in a construction zone wasn’t enough fun, so first Dean threw his back out doing demo. Then we thought we’d go with no running water for the hottest weekend of the summer. And just a pump going bad? Too easy. The water line between the well and the pump house was broken. Which isn’t surprising, since it turned out it was just some crappy plastic that shouldn’t be used for a water line anyway.

We heard those phrases we hear so often about our house: “Don’t know what the heck they were thinking, using this stuff. You can’t do that. Not gonna last. Surprised it lasted this long.”

So Monday they trenched across the yard and through the driveway and ran a new water line. By Monday night we had running water again. Plus silt in all our pipes, from the tank trying to suck water up through the broken pipe and getting dirt instead. So now we need to keep running everything in the house that’s connected to a water line until the water runs clear. Then we can get the house back to semi-normal. Our bank account will take much longer to recover. For what we’ve spent so far on this vacation, we could have had one hell of a real vacation.