25 April 2015
Woke up at 4 am with
thoughts a swirling in my brain about how to redesign the potable water supply
and wastewater disposal system to, fingers, toes, and any spare appendages
crossed, hopefully avoid the ochre problem Kate is encountering. Also found that I had captured the first
mouse of the season. After arising again
quite a bit later and removing said mouse to the Silver Lake parking lot tree
stump, spent the morning depicting the new design with spray painted crude
pictures on the ground and wooden stakes in key locations, figuring out as I
went how to comply with all setback requirements, of which there are at least a
zillion. That’s why it took all
morning. So the new grand scheme: two wells
to be drilled about 50 feet apart off the north end of the house (at about the
same longitude as the Lapidus’ well… which produces lots of good water),
septic and pump tanks moved south and west, but still on the west (lake) side
of the house, and the leach field to be rotated 90° and moved to just east of
where my trailer now is parked (about 50 feet on the other side of the stone
wall from the leach field’s “original” position.) Tom Williams came by just after noon and told
me what trees need to be removed and what grading needs to be done so that he
can get his rig to where I want the wells drilled. Called Jimmy Ploof’s voicemail (this being a
Saturday, after all) to request expeditious help with the grading portion of
Tom’s requirements. Will call Tyler
Maynard on Monday to determine how we go about getting square with the State
with these changes. Spent the balance of
the afternoon straightening up the woodshed “workshop” where I had dumped a
truckload of tools upon arrival on Tuesday.
Found 6 more mice (a mama and her very clingy newborn babies)
living inside my partial bag of Type S (for strong) Portland cement. They, too, now reside at the Silver Lake
parking area. Kate, Lynne, and Perry
came for another fabulous lasagna dinner. After talking well drilling options with Tom
today, Kate needed some viniferous restorative, which just happened to be on
hand for just such occasions.
