Last Saturday we noticed a very soggy spot in our grass right in line with our water main for the house. We have been with out water most of that time.
When Scott dug it up it was leaking and probably had been for a while. Fortunately it was about 8 feet from the house and did not get in to our basement. In these few days I have developed a better understanding of how valuable water is and just how much I use/rely on it. What a precious commodity!
This is one of the first patch jobs that lasted just long enough to fill the bath tub to bathe our little A-Dubs before the patch blew off! Scott has spent a few hours every night just trying to by us a little time till he can put in a new line in on Saturday. I think he patched the line 5 different times. When the last patch failed it EXPLODED. I didn't get to see it but when I noticed our hole filling with water I also noticed that the entire front of our house was covered with water. I think it must have been spectacular to see!
Tonight as I type I am waiting at the laundry mat for out clothes to finish up so we actually have clean clothes to wear and I didn't have a bazillion loads to do when the water can be turned on again.
We have blessed these few days by friends who have opened their homes to us so we could uses their showers, fill our water containers to do dishes/keep the house clean and wash our never ending supply of dirty dish towels.
I certainly would not like to live like this on a regular basis and I am so grateful to have a clean water supply but in all honestly it really hasn't been that bad. I know a lot of that has had to do with the kindness that has been offered to us by good friends and neighbors!
I can't wait to post pictures of the finished project. . . with any luck that will be tomorrow!
