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BUGS

I went to get the bugs for the cesspool today.

I don't want to be indelicate but it is a fact of life.

Once a year we get a pumpout and on the 6 month midpoint I go out and buy some of the bacteria that you put in to help 'eat it up'.

I don't know if it makes a particle of difference but it does feel like I am doing something positive. Well, the bugs are doing it. But I am the one feels good.

You put one bottle down per toilet and flush. Then the little rascals get to work.

Better them than me.

Yes. There is a city sewer system but we are not on it.

We are on a private road that is just far enough from the line to be grandfathered as sewer-less.

My neighbor and I talk about running a line and getting a manhole and encouraging the other people on the lane to hook in but we never quite get around to it.

There is a hookup fee and then you have to abandon the cesspool and run a new line which would be right through our newly covered (lattice) patio where we eat supper outside and................well you get the picture.

At 150 dollars for an annual pump and the cost of three bottles of bug juice I can amortize the sewer line for years and years. Well, ten to twenty.

So, I won't move until nudged and I don't know who will nudge me.

It is all up to the bugs.