Trench

[da]

Guess what!

The city misplaced our sewer pipe!

Apparently, their filing system involves relying on a stake that they drove into our yard last June, which seems foolproof to me.

Corollary: We're getting a big chunk of our lawn replaced, saving us the expense of doing it.

Second corollary: I am grateful that I could be home this morning, because they had to come inside to run another locate through the bowels under our house, after they had dug up a long trench from the road to where they thought the pipe was.

I think I'll just stay put, 'cause I've got a physio appointment down the street at lunch time.

Comments

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Hooray, I guess. How big is the hole now?

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

oh, a quarter of our lawn?

And they're working on breaking into the street now.

[sulle-stelle.livejournal.com]

Did your lawn need new sod? (I mean, it does NOW, but before, I mean?)

A free landscape upgrade is such a bonus!

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

How is your house, by the way? And can I spend time in your guest house in the winter? ;-)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

...it sort of did need new sod; we were probably going to just dump a lot of dirt on it and overseed... We're the world's most laconic lawn-maintainers.