Here is a well over due update....lets start with the messy stuff...sewerage!

I am so sorry that I have not posted an update for nearly a whole year.  I feel like I am slacking in my reporting.

We have been busy though working on things.  A lot of which are things you can't see as they are behind the walls or beneath the ground.

Charlie and Dylan were rolling out a new bale of hay for the horses, and rolled over where the sewerage pipe went which was about a foot or so below in the ground.  Pretty much instantly there was water coming up to the surface as the washer happened to be draining at the time.

Well from that point onward, for about 2 weeks the whole of back yard to the north of the house, was a large whole.  The city line coming to the house was built from concrete and paper...it would not allow Kevin to create a connection to the new pipe coming from the house because it was not smooth enough.  On top of that, someone had done a "patch" job fixing the city line by cutting pieces of bucket to cover holes and then pouring cement over it!!

It was a big job, that we knew we would have to do, and it came in at about $1200 in total.  I dread to think how much it would have cost if we had to pay a plumber to come do the work.  Benefit is that we now have a lot of the materials needed and the set up to add a bathroom at the front of the house off the front hall.  Totally looking forward to not having to fight for the bathroom with Charlie in the mornings!!

Here are some pics of what Kevin and Charlie faced!