Mar. 8, 2006 - Sump Pumps aren't Monsters!
They've got this thing in our backyard. Right by our porch. It almost looks like a black hole with a monster in it. We found out it was a sump pump. No, we don't have a basement. Apparently, our outtake lines for our septic are higher than the intake, so we had to have a sump pump to make everything work right.

Unfortunately, as of yesterday, it wasn't working right. I went outside to find a nice little puddle of blackwater, and looking down the black hole, I noticed it was much fuller and smellier than it ought to have been. I called Christopher, who basically said, "Call the plumber." Sewage just wasn't in his interest or expertise.

Thankfully, my husband showed up at home a little later feeling much more confident. Have I mentioned how attractive he is, even when he's working on a sump pump? Well, he pulled the mysterious monster (which turned out to be a puny lil sump pump) right out of the hole! It wasn't nearly the disaster we thought it was, but it was clogged up with some paper towels. We cleaned it up, gave the kids got a nice lecture of what goes down the toilet, and all was good again. Stinky water went away, and Christopher was proud to have conquered the monster in the black hole.

Now, to call and cancel the plumber....