sept 21 2023

This #2 shall pass---I could not have said it better !  that was the prize remark  by someone in the  office of Tushy. – for newcomers..... I visited a friend “ sandy” in tennassee ( who has the cleanest house I was ever in...) and was fascinated by the remote control  which took the place of toilet paper... YUP !!  go there yourself---  but I came  home with ideas I had never considered before—and found the “Tushy” company who has someone in the office with a great vocabulary—who came up with some great ones about doing your dooty to let things pass while saving 37 trees per roll.  I can not beat that !!

 

As  for a septic  update... I worked most of the day at building 25 sorting trash.... vs... stuff for the street.....vs ... stuff for storing ...vs stuff in daily use. -I saw no activity around  the septic problem... until Janine appeared with a shovel... and 15 minutes later was in my refrigerator looking for left over Chinese food for supper, having found the “missing “ tank.  She reported the whole area was dry with no sign or smell of a problem in that area. So it seems to be a problem with pipes between teh first floor toilet and the  tank...  the most probable is papertowels or feminine products none of which should be flushed. She really moved the project along by locating the tank for  them... and handed over the details in an emaIL to Lynn, the board, and the lawyer. 

 

Giving me the opportunity to explain why my method of screw driver and soup spoon is my preferred method of digging.... especially post  hole digging. (PHD) I cannot tell you how many times as I sat on the ground with spoon in hand that some ( usually   a burley man) would come by and scoff  “don’t you have a post hole digger?”

  YUP. I bet I own 3 of them – that were given to me- however I have found my spoon system to be much more efficient....  because  those PHD can be pounded in   and will scoop about ½ cup of dirt, but if that dirt contains  ½ inch pebble, then the PHD will sift out the dirt and raise the ½ inch pebble to the surface...  often.... this is new England and full of rocks.----my spoon will lift the dirt and rocks darn well /. Til you hit a boulder... when both the PHD and my spoon would require a shovel.

 

OF course another  easy hole digging process involves a  tractor and an auger—which will spin at 1200 rpms.  – when you own one of these things, you should also own a supply of shear pins- and that is what stops me... if those are sold with the digger, and the word “shear” is involved, it must mean that  pieces of these pins will break off and go somewhere at 1200 feet per minute.  Just the physics imply they don’t just break and drop.... however if one hits you right, that is exactly what you would do.

And then there is the back hoe—which will dig a mammoth hole of almost any size. But you will. Need concrete to make the hole stable enough to even hold the mail box post—let alone hold a mule...

 

So I prefer the spoon method....

Last time I did that was with the young girl who  had a falling issue--- she did such a good job at digging that post hole that we gave her a dog and she walked off to school..( much like our famous “Bella and George” –  ABC news)

 

But do I ever look foolish with my spoon and screw driver....?

Looking foolish  is not a problem—it is more a speciality of mine.