Blogging in Real Time... Part 3

As activity continued outside yesterday afternoon,

the kids finished a project we started a few

days ago.

 

 We painted and decoupaged an entire set

of wooden dolls (from http://www.catholicicing.com/passion-peg-dolls/)

 for Holy Week.

 

 I think they turned out rather nicely and

the littles are having so much fun playing with them.

 

 Then Dan arrived with the mini excavator to dig

the trench from the well to the house.

 

After some minor tree trimming, the guys got to work...

only to discover that the machinery couldn't dig through the frost line.

So we called in our favorite septic guys

(remember them from this post?)

 And they made light work of the whole project.

 This morning bright and early, "well guy" was here

to run the plumbing and electricity to the house.

 

 Made for better entertainment than Saturday

morning cartoons.

 

Dan had everything ready in the basement.

 It's hard for a DIY guy like Dan to not at least

help the professional a little!

 Hard to believe that little thing is going to

give us better water pressure than this

house has ever known.

(I'm sure Stephen could easily describe the physics behind it.

But I'd probably tune him out before I learned anything.)

 

Septic guy's back to finish excavation!

We have water in the house!

 

Oh wait!  Blogged that too soon...

excavating turned disaster,

frozen soil shattered the pipe for the well.

This is the scene as I type right now.

A meeting of the minds.

It is 3PM on the third day of no water,

I'll be back after I finish hyper-ventilating...