As Stefan mentioned, for whatever reason, where ever we decide to dig on our entire 3 acres, ends up being the wrong place to dig…

Four months ago, we were planting a palm in the backyard. The “perfect place” we decided to put it, just happened to be exactly where our septic line ran through the yard. Seriously? The one place I told Stefan to plant the tree had to be smack dab in the center of the septic line?! Stefan didn’t graze the septic line with the pickaxe, he busted right through the center of it!

Well, we decided to plant a Beach Grape tree in the front yard the other day and Stefan asked for my opinion on where to put it. I choose to put it across for the other Beach Grape I planted a couple of weeks ago and Stefan went to work on digging the hole. Dig, dig, dig, THUNK. SPEWWWWWWWWW. Less than a foot into it, Stefan hit the water main. A 1″ PVC pipe. We couldn’t have hit it if we tried. WTF. So, any who, we went for a day without water, worked through a torrential downpour, took 4 trips to the hardware store and Home Depot and now we have a new spigot for the front of the property (and water for the house):

Stefan went above and beyond and poured a bit of quickcrete (concrete) for the splash-down spot and layed it with blue stone. It looks great!

It’s actually the best spot for it. I guess it was meant to be !

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