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Jan. 13th, 2003 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikWoo-hoo. I took a nap. (Napping doesn't come easily to me, and usually only works when I'm deathly ill, which I am not.) I even don't feel completely spacey now that I'm awake.
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sar_anon's journal about our septic adventures... Basically the people came to pump our tanks today. Now, we were a little worried, because closer inspection had revealed the blurry as-built we received when we purchased the house to be actually for another property. And when the company asked for the as-built from the county, they didn't have one filed, even though our home should.
Bu we figured the worst we'd run into is that it might be under one of the gardens. We'd always kind of thought it was under the lower yard...
Wrong! It's under the deck. Y'know, the deck with our hottub. And there's absolutely no excuse, as the people who built the deck were the original owners, and had to know what they were doing. It was also the professional opinion of the guys here to pump it that the tank may well *never* have been pumped -- and there were all kinds of residue from powdered laundry detergent, which we don't use. (We were told the tank had been pumped soon before we moved in.)
Anyhow, the good news is that we aren't dealing with system failure -- this is preventative maintainance. The bad news, however, is that the best scenario we've come up with involves moving the hottub, digging a trench kind of diagonally under one corner of the deck to find the other septic lid, putting an access hatch through the deck, and filling everything back in.
At least the guy from the health department says that would be up to code...
(Three years ago they passed laws saying that you couldn't sell a house with an obstructed septic tank, but we bought our house six years ago.)
Meanwhile, my shoulder continues to be aggravated everytime I lift my elbow much above bra strap level. Whee! The whole outside of my arm, from the elbow down, goes to sleep! I'm going to see a doctor about this on Thursday, but this is one of those areas where breaking in a new doctor might be tedious -- they tend to get fruck about numbness, whereas I'm not particularly, since I know it will go away when I get the inflamation in my shoulder down. I'm a little more worried about how exactly I aggravated the rotator cuff. (I mean, the two times I injured it before I was pruning my apple orchard. Meanwhile, I'm not quite sure what set it off this time, and my orchard needs pruning! I probably shouldn't have gotten all butch about moving appliances in the garage. But I miss playing ox.)
I posted a little in
sar_anon's journal about our septic adventures... Basically the people came to pump our tanks today. Now, we were a little worried, because closer inspection had revealed the blurry as-built we received when we purchased the house to be actually for another property. And when the company asked for the as-built from the county, they didn't have one filed, even though our home should.Bu we figured the worst we'd run into is that it might be under one of the gardens. We'd always kind of thought it was under the lower yard...
Wrong! It's under the deck. Y'know, the deck with our hottub. And there's absolutely no excuse, as the people who built the deck were the original owners, and had to know what they were doing. It was also the professional opinion of the guys here to pump it that the tank may well *never* have been pumped -- and there were all kinds of residue from powdered laundry detergent, which we don't use. (We were told the tank had been pumped soon before we moved in.)
Anyhow, the good news is that we aren't dealing with system failure -- this is preventative maintainance. The bad news, however, is that the best scenario we've come up with involves moving the hottub, digging a trench kind of diagonally under one corner of the deck to find the other septic lid, putting an access hatch through the deck, and filling everything back in.
At least the guy from the health department says that would be up to code...
(Three years ago they passed laws saying that you couldn't sell a house with an obstructed septic tank, but we bought our house six years ago.)
Meanwhile, my shoulder continues to be aggravated everytime I lift my elbow much above bra strap level. Whee! The whole outside of my arm, from the elbow down, goes to sleep! I'm going to see a doctor about this on Thursday, but this is one of those areas where breaking in a new doctor might be tedious -- they tend to get fruck about numbness, whereas I'm not particularly, since I know it will go away when I get the inflamation in my shoulder down. I'm a little more worried about how exactly I aggravated the rotator cuff. (I mean, the two times I injured it before I was pruning my apple orchard. Meanwhile, I'm not quite sure what set it off this time, and my orchard needs pruning! I probably shouldn't have gotten all butch about moving appliances in the garage. But I miss playing ox.)
