We're fortunate to have wells. Deep well on the house but we also have a hand driven sand point in the yard. I use rainbarrels all summer right up to when they freeze solid then I have a barrel we fill in the greenhouse. Hardly ever stays frozen because the least sunshine and that large black barrel warms up enough to take a bath in!
They should add: Lyme extra!
northern humorHAPPY HOLLOWEEN
Dorothy, the Tin man and the scare crow came to visit me tonight! I gave them some candy. Happy Halloween!My parents had a well that was supplied by a artesian aquifer that runs across Illinois. Wonderful water. It tasted like spring water. It was great until A)a flash flood hit one summer day submerging the well vent and contaminating the well with field chemicals and horse poop from my corral resulting in the well having to be sanitized before we could use the water again. Bad enough for humans but a real PITA when you are having to haul water from town for two water guzzling hay burners. b) shortly after that, I started getting a shock off the metal in the house. Got worse until one day I went to turn on a water faucet outside and almost got knocked on my keester by the shock I got. Turned out that pumping the well dry twice had rubbed the insulation off of the pump shorting it out. Lucky I wasn't electrocuted c) the pressure tank developed a leak. Something like 5,000 dollars later we were back in business. Re-venting the well, replacing the pump and pressure tank. OH! Forgot, then the line from the well to the house sprang a leak. Nothing like waking up to a mini geyser in your back yard.
I learned to love city water, nasty tasting as it is at times. Our rural water here isn't bad flavor wise but back in IL, where DH and I lived the water was terrible in town. Couldn't stand to drink it and at home it had so many minerals in it I would get calcium build up on my teeth that you could scale off with your fingernail. It really made me miss that artesian water.
As for the knees, mine only bother me when my back is acting up then it's like I'm the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz. Dr says it's sacroiliitis....I say it's a pain in the ....ummmm backside. Every time I go in he asks me about it and keeps threatening me with doing a sonogram guided injection into the joint. So I just suck it up, smile sweetly and say 'Fine, everything's fine...no pain at all in the SI joint'....somehow I don't think he believes me.
We had 70-75 tonight.
I love it when your mind works on a problem and then pops out an answer!Parent's house and place me and DW lived when we first hooked up and quite a few other home's around here have gravity fed spring water and wood stoves, need no power.
We live in a valley now with a artesian well. Be handy if it wasn't leaking underground somewhere between the well and the old clawfoot tub down by the pond it's supposed to run in.
Hmm, just had a thought. Been changing a lot of filters since I replaced the line in the well. Always figured it was because I put it down too deep. I hear gurgling in the pipe going into that tub sometimes when we're running water inside, I bet it's sucking dirt sediment back into the darn well. This whole time I've thought it was sediment IN the well....
Water tastes great though Lol!
Wonder if I should mention it to DW?
She'll make me dig the whole darn line up
