Ernie Nyvall
06-03-2006, 6:58 PM
All ready to relax and kick up your feet. I did that this last week, but when we arrived, there was something not quite right... a sound that shouldn't be there... a distant humming that I couldn't quite put my finger on, and from another direction a hissing.
In stealth mode I slithered toward the humming, blending with the grass... the lizards didn't even see me passing. Then, climbing the first tree I leapt from one to the other until finally coming to rest next to the door of an out building where the humming was much louder. With lightening reflexes, I was through the door as though it hadn't even opened, and from the knot on my forehead, maybe it hadn't. Still though, I was in and had not been detected by the humming water pump.
Hmmm why is the water pump running I asked myself, and then I remembered the hissing:eek:
Well, you guessed it. I had a water leak. I had installed one of those whole house water filters for sediment years ago, and sometime while we were gone it cracked, and by the amount of water around, probably the day we left. Just what you want to deal with when you get home from an eight hour drive. Good thing is that since I bought the first one, they now make them with a 1" entrance and exit, and our water pressure is much better now... the silver lining. :cool:
Ernie
In stealth mode I slithered toward the humming, blending with the grass... the lizards didn't even see me passing. Then, climbing the first tree I leapt from one to the other until finally coming to rest next to the door of an out building where the humming was much louder. With lightening reflexes, I was through the door as though it hadn't even opened, and from the knot on my forehead, maybe it hadn't. Still though, I was in and had not been detected by the humming water pump.
Hmmm why is the water pump running I asked myself, and then I remembered the hissing:eek:
Well, you guessed it. I had a water leak. I had installed one of those whole house water filters for sediment years ago, and sometime while we were gone it cracked, and by the amount of water around, probably the day we left. Just what you want to deal with when you get home from an eight hour drive. Good thing is that since I bought the first one, they now make them with a 1" entrance and exit, and our water pressure is much better now... the silver lining. :cool:
Ernie