No Thanks Obama, I'll do it myself

Project: procrastinate

I learned this weekend that projects are finished in there own due time. In my family projects are all the rage we even have one night a week dedicated to our recreational projects. Of course we have the never ending home improvement projects, the type that if given time seem to disappear as new more exciting ones show there faces. Well at my house just inside my house there are plenty of projects and if you have been here you know what I'm talking about. but for this essay I will only bring up the major more evident and not to mention the highly perused and anticipated ones.

• The back splash around the kitchen counters
• The south fence in the back yard along second ave.
• The other bathroom( yes we do have two bathrooms)
  

A few weeks or more ago we started noticing the smell of wet earth in our house. We figured it to be from the wet weather (which still could have and probably did contribute). We have smelt this before when our neighbor hood decides they don't want to wake up at 3 in the morning to change head gates for irrigation and the water would run under our house. This problem was fixed at 2 in the morning one warm Saturday night just after we were married by shoveling dirt and piling it up around the crawl space entrance. So knowing that this could not happen again we delt with the smell. Then one day after work the sink in the kitchen would not drain. So I went to work. I ended up shoving my garden hose down the clean out and that fixed the problem, so we thought. It started to smell real bad under the house. So I peeked , and my worst fears were realized.
I guess broken sewer pipes are common in old houses. It was wet under our house. I decided to wait for it to dry before initiating any repairs. So we set up a sink in our shower and started using plastic ware and paper plates.
The pipes were fixed under the house, even the main line to the city sewer was replaced. To fix the pipes in the kitchen we had to chisel into the wall where the back splash would have gone. The drain for the other bath room was tapped into for the kitchen sink and the drain from the other bathrooms tub was found to be in bad shape and in need of replacement. Now for the fence. The main sewer line goes right under a dead pecan tree along the named fence line. We sent a camera down my sewer to check out what we could not replace under the tree. the roots of the tree have caused the pipe to offset which will require attention later, requiring us to remove the dead tree which if the fence was up would make this future job difficult.
This event has justified the methods to my madness. So next time you see me know this, I am smiling because all my procrastination and distractions have paid off and I am a free man (in spirit) and life will keep humming along at the pace I enjoy so much. Now if we could just pay all our bills off then we would truly be free.
Jesse Baker

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Typical Jeep

An update. Last night (friday) Carsyn, Nick and I installed the new fuel pump on the cj5 and installed the new oil filter mounting base which needed a custom mount built. Sorry no pictures but I'm sure you will see the Jeep on the trails soon so just ask and I'll show you what I had to do. After getting the Jeep running, we took off down the dirt farm road and the headlights go out. So we went back to the shop blind. after a half hour we found a bad connection that wasn't worth repairing since all the wire is junk so we cleaned the connection and left it, they work of course.