I got to leave work at 11:45 this morning, but it wasn't nearly as much fun as when I left at 12:00 last Friday. My next door neighbor (also my banker) stopped in to work and told me that there was a fountain of water in my front yard. The hydrant has been leaking slightly (for no apparent reason) for about a week or so. I bought a new one last Friday, but since it was only around freezing for a high, I decided not to dig in the dirt an/or play in the water. The top was broken off so it must have frozen last night. After I left work, I took my truck over to my garage to grab my digging tools and hook onto a trailer. The ground had settled around the hydrant and I needed to put some dirt back. I stopped to fill a sink hole by my garage in with dirt before I came back to the house. I put the post in the sink hole since several people tried to drive into it even after I had warned them about it. At the house, I started to dig out the hydrant and my neighbor/banker stopped by to help. Soon, my boss stopped by too. After fighting the tree roots and sprinkler system shut off valve that was WAY too close, we finally got the hydrant out. Then we discovered that we had put a hole in the water line close to the hydrant. I climbed onto my motorcycle and rode back to my garage where I had plenty of PVC pipe, fittings, and chemicals due to my being (kind of) in the process of running air lines with drop downs around the rafters. I'm sure that the few cars that I passed on the way back really wondered about me. Riding a sport bike carrying a 10' stick of 3/4 and a 8' stick of 1" PVC. We cut out the hydrant and the sprinkler water inlet (a sprinkler system makes me have to mow more and runs up the water bill). We got the new PVC installed after dark. I decided to let it set over night to let the glue cure out. I'll turn the water on in the morning and check for leaks. At one point this afternoon, I had both my boss and my banker digging for me while I supervised. I felt like a real important SOB!
And don't worry, even I had plenty of supervision.
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