BS: and just 'S' - Sewage Line Disaster

Subject: RE: BS: and just 'S' - Sewage Line Disaster
From: Gareth
Date: 28 May 03 - 12:20 PM

Hmmm ! Jeri - reincarnation. This calls for a reprise of the Rupert the Bear song !!!

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: and just 'S' - Sewage Line Disaster
From: GUEST
Date: 28 May 03 - 12:40 PM

get a sealing clamp...

Subject: RE: BS: and just 'S' - Sewage Line Disaster
From: Tweed
Date: 28 May 03 - 06:05 PM

Four feet down??? Dammit girl you need a backhoe, a chain saw and a bunch of rednecks to fix this mess. I am thinking it may be beyond your abilities to do the amount of work it's gonna take to make the shit flow downstream. You are no doubt a resourceful woman, but that sounds like too much for one person to do and not hurt themselves doin' it.

Yerz,
Tweed

Subject: RE: BS: and just 'S' - Sewage Line Disaster
From: Jeri
Date: 28 May 03 - 06:22 PM

Done! Found the lid, got it uncovered and they came back and snaked it out. No roots, just impacted poop-'n'-stuff. (I hate when that happens!) They didn't even charge me for the second visit. Apparently I have a pipe with a dip in it that allows stuff to collect. I was afraid to use too much water and I probably would have been better off using 'too much' water. I need to get that pipe replaced but it's a chunk of money and can wait.

Didn't hurt myself, Tweed, but I'm gonna have some sore muscles tomorrow. Still, it was sheer heaven to have a nice, LONG shower!

Subject: RE: BS: and just 'S' - Sewage Line Disaster
From: Big Mick
Date: 28 May 03 - 06:52 PM

Great, glad to hear it. Now..........can we get back to the discussion of how enormous your ash is............please?

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: and just 'S' - Sewage Line Disaster
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 May 03 - 07:22 PM

Good gawd almighty, womon! Are there no ends to your prowess, your resourcefulness, your Amazonian goddessness? You GO, GYRL!!

Woman will reincarnate as bear or dung beetle!

Somewhere, New Hampshire(MP) After several weeks of hauling ash, digging holes, and unplugging dipped sewage lines, Mighty Woman has succeeded in her mission to restore the effluvial flow through her domicile's pipes. As an immediate result, the redolence in her vicinity has abated.

In recounting her trials and tribulations, MW stated that she missed the opportunity to study and display the attributes and abilities of the common dung beetle, as the soil was not conducive to such. She went on to say that she has chosen a new type of species for her next reincarnation, that of the mighty bear; one which lives free and can squat with impugnity wherever it so chooses, to "do its business." This choice will also eliminate the need for that most mundane of chores: dishwashing. It is believed that as a bear she will not mind wet paws while fishing for dinner.

Arborists were also delighted at her success, stating that it would clearly be of benefit to ash trees everywhere. According to their website, www.haulingash.org, the trees are well-suited for the odd backscratch, but a kick in the shin damages their softie centres.

We are sure readers everywhere will join us when we say, "Well done, Mighty Woman and good luck for now and in your next go round!"

Subject: RE: BS: and just 'S' - Sewage Line Disaster
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 29 May 03 - 09:00 AM

Jeez, and I thought I had had a bad week!

You're amazin'...I'd have fainted dead away, and been tryin' to figure out how to get Mick down from Lansing!

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: and just 'S' - Sewage Line Disaster
From: Jeri
Date: 29 May 03 - 09:16 AM

Rick, I don't think you would have managed to do the shoveling, although I'm not sore at all. (Give it another day.) Funny thing - if your septic system is doing its job (and stuff is getting there, it doesn't smell any worse than wet dirt, so there really wasn't any stink. At least I know I haven't killed it with chemicals, and it didn't NEED to be pumped out - maybe why they didn't charge me for the snaking. Now I just have to fill one hole in and wait for them to bring me a tile thingie for the other so the meter reader doesn't fall in and sue my ass.

Bears are pretty cool, but they can't sing. On the other hand, they don't CARE that they can't sing.

Subject: RE: BS: and just 'S' - Sewage Line Disaster
From: Bill D
Date: 29 May 03 - 01:57 PM

of course bears don't sing...they waltz!..(as any good folkie knows!)

and I'm glad it wasn't the tree's fault, as you would have been chopping at it, and I would have had to concoct some joke even worse than Mick's about wanting a good piece of Ash.

Subject: RE: BS: and just 'S' - Sewage Line Disaster
From: Jeri
Date: 29 May 03 - 02:10 PM

Bill, I KNOW you would have been trying to get your hands on my ash. It's a four-trunk monster and I'll bet it has pretty little swirlies where the trunks all meet! It's 13.25' around at the base of the four trunks, but I think the ground's been built up so they may eventually join under the surface. You could make a really cool bathtub out of it.

Nope, I'm not choppin' THAT sucker down!