Twin Firs Adventure: Broken Water Pipe

Ahh...the weekend.  Time to kick back, watch some football, eat some good food...

Not at Twin Firs.  The weekend is when Mark digs deep and finds one more spark of energy to get things done.  He spent the week leaving before we were awake and coming home after we were asleep.  He had double surveys every day and was exhausted.  As soon as Friday rolled around, Mark was busy pulling shelves away from the walls in the carport, preparing to pressure wash.  He had paint chips from the hardware store so we could decide on a trim and soffit color.

Our house color is called Chocolate Sprinkles.  What goes better with chocolate sprinkles? Vanilla cream or shrimp cocktail?  "You can't pick a paint color based on its name!" Mark says to me. We could go with what the paint chip flyer recommends: snorting elk.  Just kidding! Its Mountain Elk, but that color is too dark for the soffit. Grandad would have loved chocolate sprinkles on his shrimp cocktail, so that is our choice-so far (so much for not picking a color based on its name).

While we are waiting for the carport to dry out, Mark heads on down to the well house to get that pressure washed.  He uses the weed eater to trim away the grass along the foundation and sees.....water bubbling up from under ground. 

He digs down and finds the join in the first bend of the pipe is warped and water is just gushing out.  The ground around the well house is completely saturated.  Who knows how long it has been leaking?  One thing is for sure: Mark is no longer thinking about paint chips.  If fact, he tells me clear the paint chips off the bricks, he is going to the hardware store.  I wish we would have discovered the leak before I was there earlier in the day! Our water gets turned off until the leak is fixed.

My awesome man got the leak fixed by 8:00 this morning and had the well house pressure washed by 8:30.  He said, "There must be something wrong with me because I didn't stay up until it was fixed last night."  We have our water back, but I am very aware that I am not at all prepared for the upcoming power outages this winter.  I had no drinking water, no clean dishes, no clean laundry, no milk, and no juice.  I had dirty kids, thirsty kids, and a counter that needed a good swipe with a dishrag.  It's time to be an ant and get ready for winter!