A couple of years ago, after an epic battle with our local development review board about a setback variance, we built a little greenhouse (8' x 12').
Flashback to 1976 - we buy the house from a local n'eer-do-well. According to the seller, it has a 1,000 gallon steel septic tank. Over the years, I have evolved the suspicion that a car body's about a thousand gallons in volume...
Early this afternoon: Hilarie comes home with a parsley plant, puts in in the greenhouse, nothing odd going on.
Early this evening: I'm reading a newspaper, Hilarie comes in and tells me that there's a sink hole in the greenhouse. I go out and one of the two benches in the greenhouse is canted at a pretty good angle, and there's a sewage filled pit with soil and gravel from the greenhouse floor still cascading into it. I reef the bench outside so as not to lose it, call the contractor who has worked with us for years and built the greenhouse. He just about splits a gut laughing. We decide that I need to call the local sh1t system wizard, who's supposed to survey the destruction tomorrow.
The saga begins, like I had nothing else to do...
Flashback to 1976 - we buy the house from a local n'eer-do-well. According to the seller, it has a 1,000 gallon steel septic tank. Over the years, I have evolved the suspicion that a car body's about a thousand gallons in volume...
Early this afternoon: Hilarie comes home with a parsley plant, puts in in the greenhouse, nothing odd going on.
Early this evening: I'm reading a newspaper, Hilarie comes in and tells me that there's a sink hole in the greenhouse. I go out and one of the two benches in the greenhouse is canted at a pretty good angle, and there's a sewage filled pit with soil and gravel from the greenhouse floor still cascading into it. I reef the bench outside so as not to lose it, call the contractor who has worked with us for years and built the greenhouse. He just about splits a gut laughing. We decide that I need to call the local sh1t system wizard, who's supposed to survey the destruction tomorrow.
The saga begins, like I had nothing else to do...
