Water Woes

I may have mentioned it before, but we live on 40 acres in the middle of nowhere.  We have a well for water, and most of the time that isn’t a problem.  When the house was first build, my dad had a whole house filtration system installed, and it does a fairly good job of making the water taste really good.  However, back when we had cows, and they broke through the fencing all the time, we had a TON of water troubles.  

It seemed I was always fixing this or that line because the cows had busted it open AGAIN.  Well, this past Friday night/ early Saturday morning, somewhere about in the 2am range, I went to take a shower and BAM!  No water.  So I went outside, and discovered water EVERYWHERE.  It busted AT the well.  So I killed the water at the breaker, which is the only sure way to stop it running, and discovered the source of the leak.  I *thought* it would be an easy fix, just glue two pieces that had somehow slipped apart back together.  So I did that, and went to bed.  The next morning, around 9am, when I went out to turn the water back on, I discovered an even bigger problem. 

That part isn’t a 2-piece fitting.  It split the piece itself in two.  So, being as how at that point I had only gotten about 4 hours sleep, I did what any sensible exhausted person would do.  I went back to bed for a few hours.  lol  And then I got up, got dressed, and went to the nearest home improvement store and got the parts I needed to fix it.  The one thing I lacked, however, was a pair of channellocks/ vice grips, so I called a wonderful neighbour of mine to borrow the necessary tool, and instead, he came over and helped me fix it.  Yay good neighbours!

So then, of course, we had to wait the requisite 2 hours for the glue to set and cure, but in the end, we had working water again.  You don’t really appreciate having water until you don’t have it for an extended period of time.  Oh, and because we run on well water, when the well isn’t working, the toilets don’t work either.  Because there’s no flow to move the water in/ out of them.  So we _ REALLY_ appreciate it when we have water!