That’s more or less what I tried to do tonight, after I got home and got a few things done around the house.
First and foremost was to work on getting those septic tank covers taken care of. I’d done all the prep work I could with the dogs in that part of the yard, but then when I moved them yesterday I decided to be lazy and not complete the job.
So, when I got home today I more or less immediately went to work on that project so it’s out of the way. It didn’t take all that long. I had to first remove the covers (which is an interesting task due to their weight and proximity about a foot underground), then I cleaned out the holes as best I could (so that the small sections of riser pipe could more cleanly rest on the existing riser) with a simple garden hoe. Then to set the new section of pipe and backfill by hand with a standard shovel. Vibrate a little bit (to try assisting the settling process), and the covers went back on. They’re pretty close to ground level now (they’re both just a hare under the current ground level). I cleaned off the covers as well (seeing as how they’d been buried before), and things look pretty good. Gave the backfill a little moisture (again to help settle it), and I’ll work on filling in more dirt (to bring the remainder of the hole to ground level again) over the next week or two.
Needless to say, it’s a good project to have done.
Aside from that, work was pretty normal today. I ended up (as normal) working on something I didn’t really intend to, but had to. But overall the day was pretty good.
We had the first asparagus of the season tonight for supper (along with brats on the grill — fantastic). The neighbor (Josh) came over while I was working on the septic tank covers and asked if I wanted any (and also told me I could pick more or less at will from their huge patch), and how could one turn that down?!? Long story short, he went and brought me some, and it was good.
So anyway, it’s getting late and I really don’t have much more to say at the moment. So I’ll sign off in the normal way. Until next time…
–MZ