Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

At 8am said he was going to bring 3, 5 gallon buckets. Didn't actually say when though.

[Porsche-poor]

contractors are so much fun.

[flipper35]

Ours aren't too bad. Well most anyway. Then again, we are a small town community.

[Porsche-poor]

yeah can't afford to burn to many bridges there.

[GH85Carrera]

It seems to be a standard practice with so many contractors to over promise and underperform but overcharge.
We found a good one when we had to have our sewer line replaced. That showed up when they said, and charged what the estimated.

I saved his contact info.

[Porsche-poor]

you were a first time customer.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

you were a first time customer.

Actually no. My old boss used him for years before, and I had called his company for a sewer clog before.

[Porsche-poor]

then you have a keeper

[Porsche-poor]

and we have more snow. ground is just starting to turn white.

[flipper35]

We are supposed to be above freezing by Friday.

Stuck here at work drafting a letter. One of those I hate to draft, but since I am the "expert" on the terminology and equipment I get to draft it and someone else will edit it. The worst part is the IT Director's coffee pot is empty.

[GH85Carrera]

It was nice here today. So far since November we have been 3 degrees below normal. That is just fine in summer, but sucks in winter.

The bosses wife demanded we go see her mother for her birthday. I had to take an entire day off of work and will likely have to work 18 hours days for weeks to make up the lost time.

We took some stuff up there and a chair back. So we took the Macan. The bosses wife drove, so I just got to look at the Oklahoma countryside. Not many mountains or ocean views but lots of wheat fields and cattle. The cool part was watching a large hawk fly across the highway in front of us, drop down into a ditch along the side of the road just a few inches above the ground, and it grabbed something, flared, and went up a few feet, and landed on top of a fence post with a critter in its claw.

Then in another area a LARGE hawk was surrounded by a large spread of white feathers, and it was eating whatever bird it had killed.

They had a LOT more snow up in Enid area than in our area. The drifts were still several feet thick along the bar ditches.

[GH85Carrera]

Brent, slap that IT director around and get some coffee made. And for sure eat that guys dinner!

Hey Richard, ya got running water in the house again or is it still dry?

[Jim Richards]

I just filed our income taxes and I'm glad as hell that's out of the way. Meanwhile, we still have some rain here.

[RKDinOKC]

They brought me a couple of 5 gal buckets when they got here at 4pm.
They are down to hooking up the new stuff to the meter.
Putting in some kind of flexipoly stuff.
Went for some kind of connector to solder to the meter and tie in the flexi stuff.
The pipe did not freeze, showed me where it was busted by a tree root out in the yard and ran back 10ft to the sidewalk before bubbling up.
Said were kind of surprised that it was not a freeze break.

Front yard is going to look dug up until spring gets some grass growing.
Gotta wait for inspectors before they can fill in the trench.

[RKDinOKC]

Took that immodium and have not eaten anything all day. Just know when I eat something immodium revenge will kick off.

[RKDinOKC]

gots me some a that there indoor plumbing again!!!

[GH85Carrera]

Whoo hooo. Welcome back to the 20th century. Of course it is now the 21st century so only gotta get the trench filled and have them gin to get back to current time.

[RKDinOKC]

They gotsta wait fer that city inspector. Then they gonna fillit.
Guy told me to poke some holes with my church key every foot or so and the hump will sink down first rain. Not sure how well that is goin ta work with all the clay.

Seems someone had put PVC from the meter to where the break was, then original copper from there to the house. And the joint was right were a tree root was goin acrost it. So mow I gots that flexi stuff from the meter to the shutoff under my sink.

Got about another 1800 worth of stuff that needs done replacing and/or fixing faucets.

[GH85Carrera]

We are supposed to have a good rain after the weekend. After they fill the trench, and they are done you can get some old shoes and go do a happy dance on the mounds of clay. That will compress it down more. After the rain wait a day or so for it to dry a little and do another happy dance or a good Irish Jig and stomp it more.



If you look near the center of this photo you will see a guy in a hat gluing the last of the connections to our new sewer line. That was a BIG hole. They filled it in, but had a mound left over. We did a lot of stomping and watering in. It is all better now.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. lots of snow last night. Not much of it stuck so just the grass and the deck are white. The kicker is that something drove thru the hood and left a huge fuel/oil spill on the road. Lots of smelly fumes.