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Post by sesfw on Dec 24, 2020 20:53:26 GMT -5
Merry Christmas everyone.
If you don't celebrate Christmas, I hope this holiday season is a good one for you.
Stay safe and stay well.
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jerseygirl
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Post by jerseygirl on Dec 24, 2020 20:57:57 GMT -5
Next year?
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Dec 25, 2020 11:33:45 GMT -5
Merry Christmas everyone. Happy Holidays to those of you who don’t celebrate Christmas.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2020 16:07:36 GMT -5
Merry Christmas to those who observe, and Happy Holidays to all. May 2021 bring peace and compassion to our world.
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Post by tcu2003 on Dec 25, 2020 23:33:47 GMT -5
Merry Christmas to everyone observing the Christmas holiday! I hope you had a wonderful day.
Happy holidays and happy late December to everyone else!
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Post by happyhoix on Dec 28, 2020 12:55:12 GMT -5
Since this was Christmas 2020, our septic tank backed up on Christmas Eve and we had to go old school and pee in buckets.
Silver lining- due to Covid, no big family gathering, it was just me and DH and our buckets.
Saturday, the honey dippers fixed us up. Merry Damn Christmas.
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Post by laterbloomer on Dec 28, 2020 14:50:24 GMT -5
Since this was Christmas 2020, our septic tank backed up on Christmas Eve and we had to go old school and pee in buckets. Silver lining- due to Covid, no big family gathering, it was just me and DH and our buckets. Saturday, the honey dippers fixed us up. Merry Damn Christmas. Who or what are the honey dippers? |
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Post by happyhoix on Dec 28, 2020 16:35:52 GMT -5
Since this was Christmas 2020, our septic tank backed up on Christmas Eve and we had to go old school and pee in buckets. Silver lining- due to Covid, no big family gathering, it was just me and DH and our buckets. Saturday, the honey dippers fixed us up. Merry Damn Christmas. Who or what are the honey dippers? The guys with the big guzzler trucks that suck out the septic tanks. My dad called them honey dippers, don’t know if that was a central PA thing or his own personal joke. |
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Post by TheOtherMe on Dec 28, 2020 17:38:43 GMT -5
Waste from hogs and cattle goes in to a honey wagon.
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Post by Tennesseer on Dec 28, 2020 18:18:19 GMT -5
Who or what are the honey dippers? The guys with the big guzzler trucks that suck out the septic tanks. My dad called them honey dippers, don’t know if that was a central PA thing or his own personal joke. My folks who owned an RV called the trucks that emptied the RVs of their waste honey wagons. Seems 'honey' is the universal part of the named trucks. |
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Post by busymom on Dec 28, 2020 18:50:13 GMT -5
Yup, I've heard of "honey dippers". It's an old term.  |
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Post by laterbloomer on Dec 28, 2020 19:25:03 GMT -5
You guys have ruined honey anything for me forever 🤢
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Post by tskeeter on Dec 29, 2020 21:04:52 GMT -5
Since this was Christmas 2020, our septic tank backed up on Christmas Eve and we had to go old school and pee in buckets. Silver lining- due to Covid, no big family gathering, it was just me and DH and our buckets. Saturday, the honey dippers fixed us up. Merry Damn Christmas. Happy, you might have a bigger issue than the septic tank backing up. A typical septic system has two components. A septic tank and a drain field. Waste flows from the house to the septic tank, where solids are broken down. Liquids are discharged from the septic tank to the drain field, where they evaporate or are absorbed by the soil. Since your septic tank has backed up, it makes me suspect that the drain field may be clogged, so that the septic tank can not discharge to the drain field. If my guess is right, pumping the septic tank is a short term fix. In a few months, the septic tank will be full and back up again. Septic tanks should be pumped out on a regular basis, to remove accumulated sludge. For a one person household, once every four years is probably enough. For a family, once a year is probably appropriate. Given your experience, it’s probably worth having the septic system inspected to ensure that it is in good working order. |
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Post by happyhoix on Dec 30, 2020 10:54:36 GMT -5
Since this was Christmas 2020, our septic tank backed up on Christmas Eve and we had to go old school and pee in buckets. Silver lining- due to Covid, no big family gathering, it was just me and DH and our buckets. Saturday, the honey dippers fixed us up. Merry Damn Christmas. Happy, you might have a bigger issue than the septic tank backing up. A typical septic system has two components. A septic tank and a drain field. Waste flows from the house to the septic tank, where solids are broken down. Liquids are discharged from the septic tank to the drain field, where they evaporate or are absorbed by the soil. Since your septic tank has backed up, it makes me suspect that the drain field may be clogged, so that the septic tank can not discharge to the drain field. If my guess is right, pumping the septic tank is a short term fix. In a few months, the septic tank will be full and back up again. Septic tanks should be pumped out on a regular basis, to remove accumulated sludge. For a one person household, once every four years is probably enough. For a family, once a year is probably appropriate. Given your experience, it’s probably worth having the septic system inspected to ensure that it is in good working order. Nope purely stupidity on our part, we weren’t taking care of it. I’m embarrassed to say how long it has been since it was pumped. If it starts backing up soon we’ll get inspected but I’m fairly sure this was just an example of the dumb ass tax, in the form of peeing in buckets and having to pay a premium for Saturday work. Mea culpa. |
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Post by Lizard Queen on Dec 30, 2020 11:01:33 GMT -5
So glad we have sewer here. I don't know the first thing about septic tanks, and I don't wanna have to know.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Dec 30, 2020 16:06:58 GMT -5
Since this was Christmas 2020, our septic tank backed up on Christmas Eve and we had to go old school and pee in buckets. Silver lining- due to Covid, no big family gathering, it was just me and DH and our buckets. Saturday, the honey dippers fixed us up. Merry Damn Christmas. Happy, you might have a bigger issue than the septic tank backing up. A typical septic system has two components. A septic tank and a drain field. Waste flows from the house to the septic tank, where solids are broken down. Liquids are discharged from the septic tank to the drain field, where they evaporate or are absorbed by the soil. Since your septic tank has backed up, it makes me suspect that the drain field may be clogged, so that the septic tank can not discharge to the drain field. If my guess is right, pumping the septic tank is a short term fix. In a few months, the septic tank will be full and back up again. Septic tanks should be pumped out on a regular basis, to remove accumulated sludge. For a one person household, once every four years is probably enough. For a family, once a year is probably appropriate. Given your experience, it’s probably worth having the septic system inspected to ensure that it is in good working order. Yep. Ours backed up not long after we had moved into a new house when I was in college. My parents were not knowledgeable enough to ask when the septic tank had last been pumped and it was overdue before we moved in. Afterwards, septic pumping was on the calendar every few years. |
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Dec 30, 2020 16:12:36 GMT -5
So glad we have sewer here. I don't know the first thing about septic tanks, and I don't wanna have to know. The one advantage of the septic tank and leach field was that our property was incredibly well fertilized. The grass looked like a putting green, and my dad’s roses and the garden went nuts with production. I think that 24 tomato plants produced a wheelbarrow full of tomatoes every other day. It was crazy. I think by the end of the summer, we had a few hundred quarts of spaghetti sauce, and I don’t know how many of just tomatoes. We gave away tons. I hated that summer, we were canning all the time. |
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Post by NoNamePerson on Dec 30, 2020 20:40:21 GMT -5
So glad we have sewer here. I don't know the first thing about septic tanks, and I don't wanna have to know. The one advantage of the septic tank and leach field was that our property was incredibly well fertilized. The grass looked like a putting green, and my dad’s roses and the garden went nuts with production. I think that 24 tomato plants produced a wheelbarrow full of tomatoes every other day. It was crazy. I think by the end of the summer, we had a few hundred quarts of spaghetti sauce, and I don’t know how many of just tomatoes. We gave away tons. I hated that summer, we were canning all the time. Erma Bomback comes to mind! The Grass Is Always Greener Over The Septic Tank.  |
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Post by movingforward on Dec 30, 2020 22:25:47 GMT -5
All I can think of right now is Eddie on National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation emptying the RV tank yelling out "the shitters full."
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sesfw
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Post by sesfw on Dec 31, 2020 11:10:44 GMT -5
Happy New Year everyone.
Open doors and windows to let the old year out ........ and the new year in.
Just to make sure 2020 actually leaves.
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Post by Tennesseer on Dec 31, 2020 11:32:05 GMT -5
Happy New Year everyone. Open doors and windows to let the old year out ........ and the new year in. Just to make sure 2020 actually leaves. With the windows and doors open, use a leaf blower to ensure the old year is really out of the house. |
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Post by jerseygirl on Dec 31, 2020 11:42:35 GMT -5
I plan to burn 2020 calendars
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