What a cute story! Love it!

How wonderful to support a local company and have them be such great people. I love my septic guy, too, lol.

I’m still blown away that you’ve only had your tank pumped once in 35 years! I have mine pumped and inspected for soundness every 3 years or so!

Oly, we buillt the house on an acre & was told we have more lines than most people due to clay soil.

I saw the new tank arrive a few minutes ago & it’s huge! They pumped out the other tank and will hook it up to the new one.

Also we didn’t & still don’t flush toilet paper or any other paper product which is probably another reason they lasted so long. I keep medium size plastic trash cans under all sinks using kitchen trash bags. They’re scented too! 😁

Love your story! Nice people...including YOU...still exist in the world! Such fun you had with such nice people! (spending money with a family business is perfectly fine by me too)

Hamburgers were the icing on the cake!

When I had my .dad’s well serviced, the guy who came, his grandfather had installed my grandfather’s well next door, and his father had installed my dad’s well. I love living in a small town for generations. DH is all about the benjamins. I am about the relationship. Often, it’s more valuable.

Best ad I ever saw for a septic pumping service read: "Where a straight flush beats a full house."

Also we didn’t & still don’t flush toilet paper

Ummmm, what do you do?

Umm, yeah, how’s that? Bidet?

Has anyone else ever wondered how many soiled disposable diapers (from any age) end up in landfills? Then add doggie poop bags, ….

I bet its a lot. Even though modern landfills and solid waste sites are supposedly lined, I am going to guess that most were not designed with voumes of soiled disposable diapers in mind.

Add to that the volume of adult diapers that must be popular, based on the ads I see everywhere.

PS And news item! A few nights ago on a ? Boston TV news program, there was a spot of news about residents of one town up in arms, perhaps with nose plugs, about a horrific, putrid stench sweeping over their community, DAILY. The filthy odor was coming from some sort of green technology composting facility. Reporters asked the gagging residents what the smell was like. There were a variety of revolting depictions — rotting frogs, dead goat carcasses….. Then one resident said that it smelled like rotting, rotted, …. lobster!🦞!

Indeed! The facility takes in crustacean shells, bodies, dead whole lobsters and crabs. Bingo! I would be livid!

Bpath, as many of you know I live for burgers and dogs, and I haven't had a burger, fries and soft drink in months, especially a burger with double meat. It made two meals for me. I slept like a baby last night. When we first moved to this farming town we rented an old two story farmhouse with an old well that was hooked up to electricity for it to pump. No problem except when we lost power during storms.

Sorry I wasn't around earlier but I've been cleaning. If DH hadn't of waited until the very last minute to see if we really needed a new system, it would have been done two weeks ago. I think it was last Tuesday when it overflowed outside so we used minimal water, even flushing the toilet. Thank goodess we have our own bathroom, and he can do one of his things outside since no one can see. lol

Cyn and Petalique, read the next sentence in the post where I explained what we do. Petalique, I felt the same way when DS1 was born and used only cloth diapers until a year later when I said NO MORE. It just totally grossed me out, they stink, you have to use more chemicals to get stains out...That's why God gave us so much land...for disposable diapers. :)

@laceyvail 6A, WV I read your remark this morning and thought it's time for the jokes with DH. About six months ago he had an violent stomach flu, and well you know. Last night we were talking about the cost of the system and I told him we should be grateful we could afford it. He agreed, end of discussion. After I read your comment I said, you know, if we couldn't have afforded it we'd be up schitt's creek because, and you've been through a lot of schitt this year. Then I told him what you wrote and we were having a grand old time LOL in the kitchen.

@petalique because we're surrounded by wheat fields and pasture for feeding cattle, about once a year we get a lovely scent of a dead cow, especially with strong winds. 100's of blackbirds live in the creek a 1/4 down the road and I saw them having a feast one day on the way to town.

This is a great picture. My tuxedo cat Raven sitting on an old windmill watching Ravens gathering before they roost. A friend surprised me by tweaking it a bit.

Septic pumping business slogans I remember seeing on the trucks when I was a child:

-It may be s$@* to you, but it's my bread and butter.

-We cater weddings.

-Honey wagon.

They had to have a sense of humor, I suppose.