Thanksgiving went well, until it didn't. After the guests had left, we noticed the high-level warning light for our septic tank was on. That means the pump that pumps the used water out of the tank into the drain field was not working. If this problem was not addressed in a few days, our toilets and drains would cease to function. These pumps usually last 20 years or more, but this was the third one to go bad on us this year. I left a message on the septic guy's machine, and he called me back the first thing next morning. He came out and fixed it straightaway, but it failed again in less than two days. When I called the guy, he said that this was not normal pump behavior and that something else must be wrong. Turned out that the pipe that leads from the pump to the drain field was broken, and the water was going back into the tank faster that the pump could pump it out, which caused the pump to overload and shut down. The septic guy's assistant assured me that it's fixed now, unless something else is wrong, we'll have to wait and see. I seem to remember that the city sewers in our old neighborhood in Chicago used to back up and flood people's basements from time to time. The only difference was that that there was nobody you could call to fix the problem.
The good news is that the big lake effect snow event missed us here in Cheboygan. We got barely a trace, and most of that has melted.
Uncle Ken's last post was disturbing. It cut off right in the middle of a sentence, and there has been no "part two" to follow his "part one". I hope this doesn't mean that something bad has happened to him. Do you know anything about this, Old Dog?
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