INTERESTING DAYS Wednesday we both had 8 a.m. appointments with the skin doctor and as expected he blistered us with liquid nitrogen to earn his fee. Lou had spots on her right cheek and left hand and of course he had to drive three nails in the top of my head, or that was what it felt like. But we got in and out without waiting so the medical profession came up a little in esteem. Wednesday was also celebrated in Abilene by naming it Dr. B. J. Estes Day because he was celebrating 50 years in practice. He is our family doctor. He hopes to practice at least 3 more years to have his family in practice in Abilene for 100 years.
Yesterday morning Lou was in the shower and called out, "the water is off" so I got up, put on shoes and pants and checked the well house. The water came back for a minute and then went off again. I opened the valve to the storage tank. Lou doesn't remember but the first year we lived here we had the tank connected to the house. A Spring hail storm came through and a couple of weeks later the water quit. I checked the well house and there was no pressure on the pump. I tried to turn on the light and there was no electricity. I checked the switch and apparently a hail stone had hit the switch and knocked it down turning it off. The tank on the hill had lasted for two weeks. But Lou worries about having enough water. We assumed that our 23 year-old pump had given up, called the pump man. He was working on the mansion West of us and couldn't get to us until this morning. Found out that the old wiring had a short in it. Replaced the wires, and the cracked plastic cover to the well and now everything works great for our newly wed granddaughter and her husband to visit this weekend.
The pump man gave us the word on what is going on at Dick Lowe's millionaire mansion behind us. They are installing 50,000 gallon storage tanks and huge (12" diameter plastic pipe) to collect the rainwater from their roofs of the three buildings. They have built a swimming pool, but plan to truck water to fill it. The great news was that their water wells are not in our aquifer. They also don't use that much water because no one is ever there.
We also got great news that Mark's wife, Kathryn, received the biopsy and there is no cancer but she needs to change medication to control bleeding.
Yesterday morning Lou was in the shower and called out, "the water is off" so I got up, put on shoes and pants and checked the well house. The water came back for a minute and then went off again. I opened the valve to the storage tank. Lou doesn't remember but the first year we lived here we had the tank connected to the house. A Spring hail storm came through and a couple of weeks later the water quit. I checked the well house and there was no pressure on the pump. I tried to turn on the light and there was no electricity. I checked the switch and apparently a hail stone had hit the switch and knocked it down turning it off. The tank on the hill had lasted for two weeks. But Lou worries about having enough water. We assumed that our 23 year-old pump had given up, called the pump man. He was working on the mansion West of us and couldn't get to us until this morning. Found out that the old wiring had a short in it. Replaced the wires, and the cracked plastic cover to the well and now everything works great for our newly wed granddaughter and her husband to visit this weekend.
The pump man gave us the word on what is going on at Dick Lowe's millionaire mansion behind us. They are installing 50,000 gallon storage tanks and huge (12" diameter plastic pipe) to collect the rainwater from their roofs of the three buildings. They have built a swimming pool, but plan to truck water to fill it. The great news was that their water wells are not in our aquifer. They also don't use that much water because no one is ever there.
We also got great news that Mark's wife, Kathryn, received the biopsy and there is no cancer but she needs to change medication to control bleeding.
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