Another Project and an OOOOPS!!!!

Well, when you have a house that is 36 years old, things need to be replaced, worked on, or upgraded!  It was time for a new septic tank and our friend Randell Penrod came over and did all the work!

 
 He dug the new line and a BIG 14+ foot deep hole for the tank!


 He dug all the leach lines and put in a 'distributer' thing so that it goes down 2 lines.
 

He filled all the leach lines with $700 worth of cinders!

He ordered the tank and arranged the delivery.

It has two really deep manhole things. You wouldn't want to fall in one of these!

He worked another half day leveling out all the big piles of dirt and covering the tank and all the leach lines. Isn't it great to have such handy friends?

Another project to be replaced was our old bridge across the irrigation ditch! All the boards were rotted out and it was getting real scary to walk across it! Uncle Bryan was in town and wanted to help.

 

 The OOOPS part of this post was back on May 25th, when I was down in Mesa with my folks, LaVerl and Ron decided to go fishing at Big Lake. LaVerl had alot to do that day, so they decided to leave early, like at 4:30am while it was still dark. On the way up, an elk wasjust right in the middle of the road and he couldn't help but HIT it! It pretty much smashed in the whole front end of his pickup. It took about a month, but now its back to almost brand new!