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Planned on spending a lot of time this last weekend calling, but, ... alas, first things come first."The ball is wet, Dad," my son said as he tossed it to me.
"Wet? What are your talking about?"
Yikes!! We've got a small pond here.
"It's the washing machine water, Dad!"
"Nyet! Can't be, ... but what would a water line be doing over there!"
Our house is almost a hundred years old, and I had figured that we had already established where the pipes were, and one shouldn't be there. Will work on it tomorrow.
Our son and his wife had felt very badly because they voted Green the 2000 election. Not this time.
Woke up the next morning, and Marcella had already dug up the pipe area, but couldn' see the pipe for the water. I suggested it was deep enough. We'll get water fillups and turn the water off. Can't get parts on Sunday.
Next morning, Monday, there was a dry hole with the exposed water-line. I had to splice in a whole foot of line, but it worked. While I was doing this, my neighbor was drilling another well, because his had caved in. 18 dollars a foot, down to 90 feet. They ran through three water areas.
After going over and giving the driller some advice, jawing with a helper and my neighbor while we watched the drill push up sand and water, ... my neighbor gave me some advice about the BUSH growing near my water pump. BUSHes and wells don't go together very well, he assured me. ... I head back over to my place. I go in and make some calls to New York.
"Oklahoma! What are you doing calling us? From Oklahoma?"
"Volunteering on the phone bank. Making sure you will vote tomorrow."
"Yes, we're planning on it."
"What do you think is the most important issue this year?"
"It's time to kick people out, when they start talking about Social Security. That affects me. You start messing with Social Security, it's time for heads to roll."
"I agree."
Then we talked a bit about weather and I wished him good luck. I didn't get to call as much as I wanted to, but I did quite a few, usually leaving word on answering machines.
And the lady from Alaska, couldn't believe she was getting called from Oklahoma. By the way, it is chilly up there.
Congratulations all callers. How Sweet it is! MoveOn.org and Change For America! It was fun.
