By the way, the reason why I've been absent here lately? - Granite Grok

By the way, the reason why I’ve been absent here lately?

City slickers may be scratching their heads, but any rural person knows the phrase “gotta get the septic pumped”. Out here, there is no sewer system, so all grey and black water goes to a 1,000 gallon tank and then onward to a leach field for “further processing”.

Well, given that the tank is buried about a foot down from the top of the grass, manual labor was called for. To make the story bearable, I was digging the hole this past Saturday to expose the cover so that the septic tank could be pumped (not ALL waste gets to the leach field; nor do you want it to). Shovel met rock…rock refused to move. Upped the ante; switched to the “one foot technique” for more leverage…rock laughed. Switched to the “jump on shovel with both feet” mode. Rock muttered “Fool”.

Rock was right – it still beat the shovel. I, much to the consternation of the septic guy, landed backwards on the concrete pathway with the fall onto my back only slightly slowed by the badly considered decision to sacrifice my right wrist for the rest of me.

Rock was right…am Fool

The fingers are finally beginning to wiggle correctly, so blogging will start to resume…

 

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