- Erin is at the other people’s place for the weekend. They’ll keep her for all of Easter and we’ll get her back on Monday morning.
- Yesterday I finally broke the 10,000 mile mark on my bike, longer than I expected but I did it in about a year’s time.
- I scheduled my 10,000 mile checkup for the 21st and I’m having Sirius put in the bike. I’m listening to it more than I expected in my Jeep, so why not on the bike.
- Going on a dealership ride today. It’s open to all, no matter what they ride. These are usually pretty popular and it should be split into 3 or 4 groups. There’s a BBQ after the ride at the dealership, burgers and dogs and refreshments.
- My neighbor, Lawrence, is joining me on this ride. He has a Harley and claims that he rarely rides it because there’s no one to ride with. I told him that I’m leaving here at 9 this morning and I can solve this problem of no one to ride with.
- Our septic system is now operational. Operational, not finished. Rudy got it up and running for the holiday weekend and that will be a good test of the system, but not the field. See pictures below.
The grey pipes are the electrical conduits for my gas operation and this was the biggest ulcer item for me. I would watch them digging and scratching with the backhoe around the conduit and would flinch every time the bucket would come within inches of them.
150 feet from the tanks to the field.
The last tank, the smallest, is a pumping station. We don’t have a large enough drop between the tanks and the field to do a gravity fed system, so we had to add the pumping station. It has a heavy duty liquid pump near the end. If you enlarge the picture (by clicking on it) you can see a pole with electrical things on it, they are the power for the pump and a set of alarms that will tell me if the pump fails or the liquid level is too high for some reason.
And then there’s the leach field. 10 trenches, 100 feet long. Each trench is 3 feet wide and they’re spaced 4 feet apart. Looks expensive, doesn’t it? You better damned well believe it is!
