Weekly Update
Posted by nathan on 03 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: my life.
Happy March. Some random thoughts of what’s going on as we start the month of March!
- I’m reminded out ‘March comes in like a lion, out like a lamb’ from Kindergarten, when half the class made lions on a page, and my half the class made a lamb (with cotton balls as wool). March 1 was a lion, as we still had about 5″ of snow cover on the ground. By this morning, (March 3), there was almost no snow cover–only piles left! It was 51 degrees at 7 a.m.!
- Our sewer line is plugged, which means a couple things. 1. Our sewage is getting pumped into our back yard. 2. We have to pay someone like $150 to unplug it. This plugged last year, about 125′ down the line. Darn tree roots! I’ve been putting root killer down there, but apparently, not enough! I’ll have to step up the dosage and frequency. I can only hope i don’t have a collapsed pipe. (That would not be cool!)
- In the middle of typing this, I got a call to head home and meet the sewer people there to unplug it. They got it done no problem. Cost me $175, but that’s not really a big deal considering i wasn’t able to flush the toilet properly all weekend!
- Sunday I finishing up waterproofing the kitchen counter I installed last year. I put clear silicone to seal the backslash to the counter and also the wall. No more getting worried when we have a splash! I bought a little $1.50 tool at Home Depot to smooth out the seal, and it worked wonderfully. I should have had that little tool a long time ago. It was well worth the $1.50.
- Of course, I had to take two trips to Home Depot to finish my project. The first one to purchase the smoothing tool and the second one to buy the silicone, as the silicone I was planning to use had all gummed up and I wasn’t able to get any out of the gun. Ahh–I remember the days of multiple trips to Home Depot every Saturday and Sunday. I’m really kinda glad I don’t have to deal with so many trips any more!
- I am in the planning stages to work on some drainage. I want to take our downspouts and drain them away from the house. This entails digging a trench and laying tile…I’ll be doing this in the spring when the ground is really soft so it’ll be easy to dig down the 18-24″ I need.
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on 03 Mar 2008 at 2:37 pm 1.
Carma said …
You should have called Ayron. We had the sewer issue to. He has a sewer snake at work and he could have helped you snake it for free. Sure, you’d probably ruin a pair of work gloves, but those are cheaper than paying someone. Just keep that in mind in case it happens again.