August 15, 2006--No water

Yesterday our water stopped working. Just stopped, right in the middle of filling up the washing machine. I called my dad and asked him to come over and look at it, since Erick was on a roof, but he couldn't figure it out. So I had to call down and ask someone to tell Erick that our water wasn't working and that he needed to come home and take a look at it. He worked on it for awhile, and even went and bought a $40 part to try and fix it, and it still didn't work. He went out to the well and listened, and could hear that the motor was running, but it's not drawing any water. At first he said maybe the well ran dry, but it was raining at the time. Kind of odd for the well to run dry in the middle of a rainstorm! He talked to my parents and they said they'd had the same thing happen, and that the screen on the pump had gotten plugged with rust. It cost them $700 to get it repaired. Erick said he's not paying someone that much to fix it, and he's going to do it himself. He said you have to have some kind of key that you stick down this pipe into the pitless adaptar to remove the pump, and then you can pull it up and change the screen. But the only problem is, only the pros have thse keys. He tried to make one from a piece of flattened pipe and it wasn't strong enough. He's going to try and hunt up a stronger piece of pipe today, but first he's got to get this roof on he's been doing. I have to can peaches today. I have a bushel of grade B peaches I bought for $13 and they have to be canned today or they are going to go bad. But I have no water. So I'm going to take them over to Mom and Dad's and do it there. I can't take a bath. I had to haul water over from my parent's last night and heat it on the stove to do the dishes. I hope he gets the water fixed today!