Thankful

Guess what I get to be thankful for this year? Monday we get a new septic tank! What else am I thankful for? The way I found out that we even HAD a septic problem is that while doing laundry yesterday, the bathroom adjacent to the washroom had a tub and toilet full of April Fresh Downy rinse water! Anyone can imagine how much worse that could have gone, smellwise. The thankful train keeps on rollin', in that I don't have to pay for the new septic tank (we rent this house), and when the problem began, I was all caught up on all my cleaning and laundry.
Funny, last week, Melson handed his grandmother, Oui (as in "yes you can have it, yes you can do it"...) his watering can, and said "it needs water in it, so I can pee the flowers". Little did we know, our kid has "ESPN", as his Daddy calls it - since now we are LITERALLY peeing the flowers. The plumber disconnected the house from the septic tank, so all water, from all sources in the house, now empties into our backyard, at least until tomorrow!

As a side note: this unique and beautiful house we are blessed to live in has presented so many quirks - this time, it is the location of the septic tank. It is under our back deck, which is weird enough, and makes it difficult and costly to access in order to do maintenance, but the support posts for the deck were built literally on top of the lid to the tank. This is why we are getting a whole new septic tank.