Yeah, so our toilet wasn’t working up to its potential yesterday. Naturally I was blamed and as I was plunging away I could hear the other drains in the house gurgling. No matter how hard I plunged, the toilet just would not drain quickly. Amy ran the washing machine and more gurgling.

Then I put it all together around 8pm last night and ran out in the backyard and started digging. A tremendous amount of snow has melted in the past week due to all the rain we’ve had… plus all the rain we’ve had. We live at a pretty decent elevation and it’s down hill in basically every direction, but our site is relatively flat. Water has been pooling pretty good in the yard and I guess the ground and the septic system has had all it can stands and it can’t stands no more.

So I dug a couple trenches from the septic/leach field area to the driveway and out to the street. In the dark, while it was drizzling. Every once and again I’d catch a hint of septic sweetness. Yum. Had some good flow but the water just kept coming up out of the ground. When I came outside this morning there was a nice film of ice over my trenches but I could see that the water was still flowing 10 hours later.

Today’s been sunny but not particularly warm, and this weekend is supposed to be dark and damp. I’ve blown a call into our septic specialists and hopefully they can come pump us out Monday. They were coming in a few months but I told them it was time to mobilize. The hope is we’ll buy a few weeks before the tank starts dumping to a three week drier leach field. Pray for us.

This is country.