{"id":15168,"date":"2011-02-08T18:37:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T23:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/15168\/repairs-grandiose-idea\/"},"modified":"2011-02-08T18:37:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T23:37:14","slug":"repairs-grandiose-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/15168\/repairs-grandiose-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Well Repairs and a Grandiose Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was certainly a busy weekend.\u00a0 I wish I could have been here more to take part in the debate of the ethics\/morality of the human species\u2019 place on the food chain, but I had other fish to fry, so to speak.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

On Thursday when The Man went to the pump house to turn the water on so he could water the trees in the back forty (feet, not acres) he noticed that there was a strange humming noise and the pressure gauge was showing zero.\u00a0 Not good.\u00a0 Call the well guys.\u00a0 Luckily they came out first thing Friday morning, and although their diagnosis wasn\u2019t good, I can\u2019t say it wasn\u2019t expected.\u00a0 Last time the well needed any work was 10 years ago.\u00a0 The well guys said that the feed pipe inside the well was busted and our pump was running 24\/7.\u00a0 Solved the mystery of why our power bills had gone up to mid-summer levels the last two months.\u00a0 And we thought it was the HVAC units.\u00a0 Silly us.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So Friday was spent taking down the pump house.\u00a0 What a job!\u00a0 Those walls weigh a ton and with just the two of us it was an inch along job.\u00a0 Surprisingly, we got it down pretty fast and I only pulled one shoulder muscle.\u00a0 Not bad.\u00a0 Got the concrete cap all cleaned off, pulled all the cold wrap off the pipes and it was ready for the well guys who were coming back first thing Saturday morning.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday we were without water for only five hours.\u00a0 Since I slept through the first three, I hardly noticed it at all.\u00a0 After the well guys left, I did some laundry and The Man transplanted seedlings.\u00a0 We went back out and wrapped up the pipes again, but we just weren\u2019t ready to put the pump house back together.\u00a0 So we are procrastinating on that until next weekend.\u00a0 Hopefully the weather will stay nice.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sunday being Super Bowl Sunday, The Man was oblivious to the World.\u00a0 The smell of pizza rolls, potato skins, and homemade beer permeated the living room.\u00a0 Rather than spend the day listening to a fairly intelligent man yell at the television, I did the smart thing for my psyche and hid out in the back of the house.\u00a0 I finished reading the book I was working on and then decided to do some work out in the multipurpose room.\u00a0 Well, it will be the multipurpose room once we get it all cleaned out.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s just our overloaded storage room.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I was going through a box of books, of which we have many, and I found two paperbacks that I picked up back in 1986.\u00a0 The Book of Questions and The Book of Questions Love & Sex, both by Gregory Stock, PH.D.\u00a0 I think both of these are still available on Amazon, if you\u2019d like to get yourself a set.\u00a0 I used to bring these books out when we\u2019d have get togethers back in the day when we had friends and time.\u00a0 They were always great for getting some really deep conversations going.\u00a0 I leafed through them and chuckled to myself at how much my opinions have changed.\u00a0 Then I had a thought.\u00a0 Yeah, it was a pretty spectacular moment for me too.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Instead of the Shell Answer Man, I could become the Burst Question Lady!\u00a0 I\u2019ll pose a question from one of these books and y\u2019all can throw in your two cents.\u00a0 It could be fun.\u00a0 What\u2019s the worst thing that could happen?\u00a0 Nobody plays?\u00a0 A little more lulz?\u00a0 Come on, it couldn\u2019t be any worse than walking into a patch of stinging nettle.\u00a0 Could it?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll post the rules (every game has to have them) with the first question on Wednesday morning and let it run for a week to see how it goes.\u00a0 Maybe two weeks, since it has been suggested that is the approximate lifespan of an internet thought.\u00a0 If we have some fun, or at least something else to talk about, I\u2019ll do it again.\u00a0 So you wanna play?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was certainly a busy weekend.\u00a0 I wish I could have been here more to take part in the debate of the ethics\/morality of the human species\u2019 place on the food chain, but I had other fish to fry, so to speak. On Thursday when The Man went to the pump house to turn the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,2],"tags":[515,7,49,1637],"class_list":["post-15168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendburst","category-home","category-other","tag-deep-thoughts","tag-friendburst-2","tag-friends-2","tag-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}