Since last Monday, Deryk and his room mate Chris have been coming up from Fort Huachuca after work to put in my waterline. Last Thursday evening we were cutting a small trench from the manifold over to the main trench, when Chris, who's an Alabama man, said "Man, that's some dry dirt." To which, Deryk and I replied, "Welcome to Arizona!"Chris told us that if we dug down that far in Alabama dirt we would find earthworms. I told him that if we want to find worms we shoot a jack rabbit.
That's Chris in the foreground of the top picture. I want to say a quick Hello to Chris' family in Alabama. I told him that I would post this and that he could have his family visit the blog. So welcome to Howe U Ben, Hall family.
So, thanks to Deryk's skillful plumbing, we will have running water tomorrow morning. It's been a long time coming since it's been almost nine months since we moved out here.
What we have found i that, though water is essential to the human existence, running water is so very unessential. Lesley might argue against that. It may be crucial to comfort and ease, but it is definitely not essential to our existence.
3 comments:
Yeah man (woman) need running water! Who are you kidding!!! Praise be to our plumbers, for thier skill and dedication. Heck they drove on a dirt road several weeknights till the job was done! Thanks so much guys!
Yeah, as a recent digger in Alabama dirt, I can attest that you don't have to dig "down" to find worms -- use your fingernails to scrape off the surface grass/weeds and you'll find as many as you want. And in some places they say all you have to do is dig a hole and it'll fill with water.
Good luck with the project!
Water! Less than 300 feet under the ground? Yeah, right. Sounds like the Easter Bunny story to me. "If we want worms we just shoot a jackrabbit"...priceless!
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