 - Last login: 32 hours agoTextuous
- Textuous is a 51 year old guy from Near-N-Yondered, Texas, USA.
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Antique Cowboy with tarnished six-shooter, rusty spurs, and swaybacked steed. Garage kept, housebroken, and mannerful. Grammatically textuous, with traces of chivalry and dance-floor etiquette. If you read the blog...the least you can do is leave me a smile.
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SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
Ok neighbors...I know this may not be the most desirable topic of conversation around the campfire, but since you're here...
Recently, I got the once-in-lifetime opportunity to replace and repair a genuine, rural, passive, domestic sewer system...which has been in service for forty-something years. Whoever said you can't teach an old dog new tricks wasn't out there for three days, while the heat index climbed to well over 110 degrees. I was, and I learned a LOT of things I never gave a whole lot of thought to before.
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Me and Mr. Shovel just don't get along like we used to. These days, even with gloves on, he insists on inviting blisters to the party, and sadly, I've become quite prejudiced towards their religious and political beliefs.
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There should be a law somewhere which says that if you borrow a backhoe from a friend, the seat CANNOT be made of back vinyl. During lunch breaks, if left to it's own designs, such sitting places can become superheated by the lovely Texas sunshine...to the point of scalding the unsuspecting cowboy's butt in three places
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Backhoes are fun to use. With very little effort, not only can you dig holes and trenches...you can rip up roots, water pipes, telephone cables, satellite TV wires... even natural gas supply lines. And when backfilling holes and trenches, you can bury rose bushes and small shrubs, permanently change the shape of lawn furniture, and make all the volunteer help move their vehicles without even asking. Amazing...
There are REALLY cool scientific things too...like...
If you dig a big hole in the middle of the back yard, and use the backhoe to dip all the goop out of the septic tank...and if you put said goop into the big hole, and then cover it up with dirt...you end up with a perfectly camouflaged big hole of goop...and backhoes DO get stuck. Normally, mud is mud...but goop is in a different odoriferous class altogether.
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BBQ sandwiches and replacements of sewer systems are not a good mix, especially if the water for hand-washing is turned off due to broken and mangled water pipes. So lets not even go there...ok?
But all in all, the new system went in quickly and efficiently...and it works quite well. The contractor wanted $1500 for a turn-key job, but with help from my friends, it only ran about $700 above that. PLUS, the satisfaction of doing it myself was priceless. Wonder what it would cost to put a new roof on the tree-house...
Meyer
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