Running water?

August 1, 2017

There's our old blue toilet. Kevin and his friend (pictured above) had to chip away the cement to get to the drain. We had to remove the old toilet, which broke, fix the floor in the bathroom, put in a whole new drain and attach it to a smaller waste tank and pump before connecting it all to the septic tank. This added a grand on to what we already spent for the tank and installation. 

The new toilet. 

DONE! Everything is working and I cleaned up the mess. :-) More than half of our summer vacation is gone, but it is done and we can finally spend some time here. On th plus side the weather in June and July was awful most of the time, so it was a good year to not be here so much.

How does my grass grow?

July 12 -  no lawn :-(

Some pictures of the septic tank being installed are here.

July 21: I spent a day raking, smoothing out the earth and marking where the tank is.

July 22 - Darcy helped me pick up rocks that could eventually damage the lawnmower. I also pulled the fire pit base back over where it belongs and put the wheelbarrow straight. I even filled it with earth and planted flowers in it. I was lucky to get a 35$ bag of grass seed for $7 ealier Darcy and I each grabbed some seeds off we went.

A week later there are some shoots!!

August 1: Some work is finally being done to fix the broken drain. Of course the toilet had to break, so now we have to wait so we can go get a new toilet. 

August 4 - can really see it growing in now.

August 9 - it's green!!

September 9: View from the other side- starting to look like a real lawn again.