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Just taking a few minutes to share some thoughts and details ( within OPSEC ) of our family vacation at our secondary BOL.
I had a few weeks vacation time accumulated, so we decided to spend a few days at a close friends retreat ( our secondary BOL ). We left home last Saturday, and when we got there ( the same day), we had the start of a great time.
Although the wife left to return home Sunday evening ( she had to work Monday ), we had fun just the same. My son and I stayed till Wednesday afternoon, and had a few more days of roaming their farm, and the woods of their wonderful next door neighbor.
We try to help with some kind of chores when we visit, and this time was no exception. They had been without their well for about 2 months, because the pump had gone bad. All the water that they used when they were there was trucked in by them in multiple sized containers, and bottled water for drinking.
Not wanting to impose on their hospitality, I got one of my 55 gal. water barrels, and placed it in the bed of my truck to fill right before we left for their place. I packed along one of the SUPER SIPHONS, and a couple of 5 gal. buckets for packing in water for washing and toilet use, and a case of bottled water for drinking as well.
Monday and Tuesday Morning, he and his wife spent their time turkey hunting with their neighbor. When they came back in from their Tuesday hunt, we got things ready, and the four of us took a trip to a plumming, electrical, and HVAC supply company in a town nearby to purchase their new pump.
It took them some time to gather the needed funds to pay for one, but they managed to get it, and off we went. When we got back, it was only a short time before the neighbor came to help do the installation. We had pulled the old one the day before, and so it was just a matter of preparing the new one to be put back.
I had helped a neighbor some years ago with his, but couldn't remember a lot of the details of the proceedures of removal and installation, so when we did the work of taking the old pump out and installing the new one, I paid extra close attention to all the different proceedures for each. I hope to find my family a nice retreat location some day, and will have to know these things some day I'm sure, so it was in our best interest to pay close attention to everything that needed to be done with this job.Everything worked out great, and they now have water at their retreat once again. As we were doing this, I also made sure that my son was right there helping as he could ( he's 11 ), and that he was also paying close attention to what was being done and how it was done. He may have to help do something like this again, so it was in his best interest as well. He did a good job of helping and watching, and I was really proud of his work and his attention level.
We'll make a few more trips on some of the upcoming weekends this year to hang out with them, and help do some more work around the place. I look forward to these trips, because of the amount of relaxation we still manage to get while we are visiting. The country does wonders on our frazzled city nerves, and we feel so much more energized when we get back home from our visits. Just wish we were a lot closer to gett a place of our own, but all things come in their own time, and in the mean time we are learning more of what we'll need to know for working our own place in the country some day.
I had a few weeks vacation time accumulated, so we decided to spend a few days at a close friends retreat ( our secondary BOL ). We left home last Saturday, and when we got there ( the same day), we had the start of a great time.
Although the wife left to return home Sunday evening ( she had to work Monday ), we had fun just the same. My son and I stayed till Wednesday afternoon, and had a few more days of roaming their farm, and the woods of their wonderful next door neighbor.
We try to help with some kind of chores when we visit, and this time was no exception. They had been without their well for about 2 months, because the pump had gone bad. All the water that they used when they were there was trucked in by them in multiple sized containers, and bottled water for drinking.
Not wanting to impose on their hospitality, I got one of my 55 gal. water barrels, and placed it in the bed of my truck to fill right before we left for their place. I packed along one of the SUPER SIPHONS, and a couple of 5 gal. buckets for packing in water for washing and toilet use, and a case of bottled water for drinking as well.
Monday and Tuesday Morning, he and his wife spent their time turkey hunting with their neighbor. When they came back in from their Tuesday hunt, we got things ready, and the four of us took a trip to a plumming, electrical, and HVAC supply company in a town nearby to purchase their new pump.
It took them some time to gather the needed funds to pay for one, but they managed to get it, and off we went. When we got back, it was only a short time before the neighbor came to help do the installation. We had pulled the old one the day before, and so it was just a matter of preparing the new one to be put back.
I had helped a neighbor some years ago with his, but couldn't remember a lot of the details of the proceedures of removal and installation, so when we did the work of taking the old pump out and installing the new one, I paid extra close attention to all the different proceedures for each. I hope to find my family a nice retreat location some day, and will have to know these things some day I'm sure, so it was in our best interest to pay close attention to everything that needed to be done with this job.Everything worked out great, and they now have water at their retreat once again. As we were doing this, I also made sure that my son was right there helping as he could ( he's 11 ), and that he was also paying close attention to what was being done and how it was done. He may have to help do something like this again, so it was in his best interest as well. He did a good job of helping and watching, and I was really proud of his work and his attention level.
We'll make a few more trips on some of the upcoming weekends this year to hang out with them, and help do some more work around the place. I look forward to these trips, because of the amount of relaxation we still manage to get while we are visiting. The country does wonders on our frazzled city nerves, and we feel so much more energized when we get back home from our visits. Just wish we were a lot closer to gett a place of our own, but all things come in their own time, and in the mean time we are learning more of what we'll need to know for working our own place in the country some day.
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