"I am standing at the pump. Tried a lighter"
Uhmmmm, Ahhhhh, Seriously?
LOL thats exactly what I thought.. my eyebrows went WAY up.. Glad your still with us Mrs. River!!!
LAST night at this time, I was chiseling frozen dirt with a big ice scraper for driveways and sidewalks.. I started about 5 PM, and chiseled until about 9 PM before I finally had enough FROZEN dirt removed to get down to NON frozen dirt..
WHY on earth would anyone chisel dirt when it is 5 degrees and the wind is blowing 20 mph? (Which meant it was -15 degrees)
My wife woke me up.. laying in bed with Bronchitis, and said there was something wrong with the toilets, both were not flushing..... I filled the sink with water... yep, it was backed up as well.... So either the pipes are frozen, or the screen on the outlet to the septic tank was plugged....
Since NOTHING froze last winter at more than 50 below, i had great doubts anything would be frozen at 5 degrees... so i got dressed, grabbed shovel and chisel, and went to do my husbandly duty..
ONCE I was through the frozen ground it only took about 30 minutes to dig the plastic tank cover up, take the screws out, reach down and grab the filter, pull it out, go out to the barn and rinse it off, put it back in, screw cover back down, push the dirt back into the hole, and go into the house to tell wife that she could shower and use the potty again...
She didnt even look up from her computer, she just said... OK........
Fortunately, I had left the chisel where it lay... After two hours of coughing, from coming back into the warmth of the house.. I managed to get back to sleep...
I woke up this morning, and found the coffee was ready for me to turn it on, and a note that says.. Thanks!
Better last night than tonight I guess. Its snowing and blowing like mad right now.