Ah, the wonders of country living. We learn something new every day. Last Friday, I came home with the 5-yr old in tow (waiting on his two older brothers to arrive shortly) to find that our house had no water. Fan-freaking-tastic. I called Jason, the electric company, our developer, a well-drilling guy...long story short, no one knew what the problem was. The running theory was the the guys doing some trenching up the way may have caused a bit of an underground earthquake and killed our pump...well, that's just ducky. I pushed this and hit that, blah blah, nothing. No water. Zilch. Awesome... So, the well guy is out of town, but he called a guy he works with who said that he could stop by but not until Saturday morning. So, now we are a family of 5 with 2 dogs and no indoor plumbing. Anyone see a problem with this?
So, dinner menu got scratched and we went out for Chinese, then to grandma and grandpa's house for running water and such. We had all the kids go to the bathroom, brush teeth, take showers, etc, (then we waited out a nasty hail-producing storm) and then we went home and rolled them into bed, praying that we would have running water when they woke up and needed to do it all over again.
Saturday morning, the guy shows up around 8am and determines that the pump is fine, but a colony of very determined ants took up residence in the electrical box and electrocuted themselves, thus stopping any power from getting to the pump itself. He cleaned out the box, sprayed it down with ant spray, and voila, we have water!! AND, Jason mentioned that the water pressure in our house seemed low, he checked and said it wasn't set high enough, so he set the psi higher, and now we have indoor plumbing with pressure to back it up! Booyah for the well dude!! No charge since we haven't lived there long enough, and he said that as long as we spray the thing with ant spray once in a while, we should be good to go. Hallelujah! The weekend is looking up!!
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