anti-septic

OK, so by way of competing with my brother for things gone wrong, our septic system starting burping like it had indigestion, suddenly, last evening. Then nothin' would drain, which can be most inconvenient at times.

So today a plumber guy comes out to the house. He's about the sixth plumber I called - apparently this rural, lightly populated area of Iowa has huge plumbing issues - they were all busier than one armed paper hangers.

So anyway, he and his quite overweight assistant start diggin' away to find the septic tank, and....you guessed, they found it, right there where it was supposed to be. BUT, its crumbling apart where the pipe from the house joins it. So right now we have an open hole out there in the garden....its lovely....smells heavenly....we can compete with the cattle farm up the road... :-) And now the kids can have fun flushing the stool and running outside to see if they can beat the turd to the tank....!!!! HA!!! Country living pastimes can be fun...

SO, BRO - I'll trade you my dead septic system for your dead Honda.....