Judie my dear, you should just hear the moaning and wailing and gnashing of teeth around here. My goodness, I've ordered a new shipment of sackcloth and ashes. lol I'm no martyr, I promise you. This is getting to me for sure and I've sounded off maybe once or twice at things that I would have let go by if I wasn't about to strip my only earthly asset down to its skivvies to pay for an over-sized crapper. But we have to get this done and the only way for that to happen is for me to buck up and do it. I mean, you can't just keep running down to McDonalds every time you need to .... um, seek relief. So there's no place to go but up.
I'm trying hard to keep a sense of humor. There is a good deal of inherent gallows humor in the situation. Today we learned, for instance, that our house is built on rock, as recommended by the Good Book. That's a good thing, spiritually, but in terms of a new drain field, it would be better to have built on that shifting sand. It would have cost us about $7,000 less and would not have required the scraping flat of our entire upper yard, including all the bushes, perennials and trees we've planted over the past 10 years. So who knew ..... dig down 5.5 feet and hit basalt. Another two feet and we would have been home free. But no..... our house is structurally sound but sceptically on shaky ground. LOL I know, only a major Protestant Bible nerd would find humor in this, but ..... like I said, we're taking our humor where we can find it.
We are planning a party when the work is all finished. Russ suggests we raffle off the first flush of the new system. There will be singing and dancing and lots of stuff to drink because we won't be counting flushes anymore. ROFL If any of you are available in a few weeks, let me know and I'll pencil you onto the guest list.
Hugs and happy thoughts Sunny who has gone to her 'happy place' so many times in the past week that it's gotten really grubby and there are dirty dishes all over the place