I was getting ready for our annual family get together.
We have a large pavilion in our backyard.
There is plenty of seating for seventy-five people, and a large smoker. My husband decided he wanted to build a grill and found an old barrel that is now one of the biggest grills I have ever seen. We can fit enough half chickens on the grill for everyone to have chicken, and still have room for hot dogs. We were heading to the pavilion to clean the place up, since it hadn’t been touched in nearly a year. I knew it hadn’t rained in several days, but the ground around the sewer area was soggy. I held my breath and counted to ten before screaming. When my husband saw my face, he asked what was wrong. I pointed to the sewer and how wet the ground was. He ran into the house and called the plumber. He told them we were expecting at least sixty people for the next day, and we had a sewer problem. We didn’t want to dig up the yard, but it looked like it was inevitable. The plumber assured us we wouldn’t need to dig up the yard. He said they now had a new method called trenchless plumbing. They could look through the pipes to see where the leak was. Once locating the leak, they used the same pipe they used to locate the leak, and slip a sleeve into the hole. It is made to adhere to the pipe and fix the leak. I didn’t understand what the plumber was talking about, but if it kept my lawn from being dug up and the leak was fixed, I didn’t care what he did.