Getting Caught Up

I hope you all had a nice weekend. This first in November. The weather here is perfect. This weekend was a nice weekend but not one you really like to happen very much. We have this place in our yard that was turning into a swamp. Ron and I didn't bring it up to each other and we both quit using the gate. I stopped visiting his trees or going to that side of the yard unless I needed something over there. I hate water leaks and after two years in a row of replacing water heaters and dealing with leaking water it is important that it is fixed before the frost.

Because of where we live, in the desert, we have automatic sprinklers. The sprinkler pipes and the valves wear out just like every thing else. Saturday morning Ron said, he was going to have to start digging. I am not a good digger. I stood outside and talked to him as he started this horrible, yucky job.

 

The mud was horrible and smelled like sewer, the leak has been there awhile. There are three valves there so Ron had to dip water into that five gallon bucket and carry it out to dump it over and over until he could see where the water was coming from. He had to dig very carefully so he didn't hit a pipe or a valve. He was in mud up to his knees and he was sopping wet. You know I get tired of doing laundry and cleaning house and cooking dinner, but even on my worst day, it is never as hard as the things he has to do to keep things running around here. I know from the photo it doesn't look very big but the hole is about 5 feet by 3 feet. All weekend this was what he did and late Saturday, he came to the door and said, " Hey come look at the leak!" I thought he said, " Come look at this leaf." So I grabbed my camera as I thought to myself, " How wonderful is it my husband found a cool leaf for me." 

 

See all of that terrible mud. We kept making jokes about Hank the Cowdog and the emerald pond.
He replaced the valve that was leaking and it wasn't until he finally found the leak that was under the fence that the water finally stopped running. Now we have to let it dry out. He is going to use the tractor to scoop this mud and take it away and then use sand to fill in the hole and bring in some more dirt to fill the hole.

So our weekend was like that. The weather was beautiful though. I cooked a bunch and made pies. That is all I can ever  think to do, just cook.

Today, they are delivering our firewood.  I always enjoy when our firewood gets here. Then I am ready for storms.

Have a lovely week,
~Kim~