Tuesday, April 6, 2010

How about going out...we did!

What would be the occasion to leave the compound and venture into the world, you ask?
This and that …but of course!

Do you all recall that I felt the need to propagate?
The pineapple, silly!
I’m way too old for the other kind.

Any-who, we went to the giant discount store up the road a piece to acquire those few items which we just had to have, potting soil, hair care products and …gosh I forgot!
But we really hadda have it; if you know what I mean?

Once back at the ranch, so to speak, we chilled for a bit and sat outback.
Then Hubby got out the empty large flower pot with matching saucer, and filled it with the potting soil, he did the honors too with the planting of the pineapple according to the instructions off the net, push in till it stands by itself.

Hubby did some other things while I bathed in the dapple sunshine under the shade of our lanai. Soon I noticed through the houses that the next street over mail had been delivered and so I told Hubby, and he went and got ours. It was mostly junk mail and our water and sewer bill with an addition inside, a water quality test result for the county.

To the good it did show that we were all within the required limitations for any impurities. But I called anyway, since it was really written for a micro-biologist to understand. Hubby and I both knew we had very hard water and this was a definite from the exterior faucets deteriorating and the same issue occurring with our kitchen faucet as well. But when I questioned it the times before I was told that our water couldn’t do that and so I told the faucet manufacturer and they replaced it for the third time for free, the first and second times we paid for it.

Also the last time I called the utility department I was told a water test cost one hundred bucks but this time I was told it was free, huh?
And so I requested one, and sure enough the person was here this afternoon, service with a smile, how about that?

The gentleman was greeted by Hubby who went out specifically to speak with him and show him our faucet proof. The man agreed the water should not do that, and proceeded to test the water, it turned pink very quickly indicating that something was definitely askew it was showing the disinfectant was too high, and he told Hubby that the system should be flushed out by them within the next few days. Thank you very much!

I had concerns previously and even switched our animals to bottle water like me, since I could never drink ours; it gave me a stomach issue, that’s as close as I am going to say, you get the gist.
My other problems were pink rings in the toilets, and if I soaked towels or white clothing for more than a few minutes in the washer they would actually rip!

Now I feel like I am being exonerated, well at least I will when they fix the problem.
After all our water and sewer bills run around eighty bucks a month, only once it was in the sixties, and a few times like this current one which I already paid online was in the low nineties, which seems high to me, but this was a thirty-one day month, and even though Hubby waters with the rain barrel water he can’t add back water to the swimming pool or the fish pond which evaporate with our dryness, because there is too much sediment from our roof in the rain barrel water, even with the screen in place. So he does on occasion use city water.

Good night to all and to all count those blessings and we will too!

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