Hope you enjoyed Christmas. We got a Christmas present early this year: Running water!

It had been thawing out for a week, so, Mom and Dad went up to take a look at the intake. I went up to check on them, and found them tapping the exposed pipe running from the overflow box.

What they did was drilled a small hole in the pipe, and tapped until the hole squirted water. After about two hours, they had worked the pipe to the end of the exposed pipe. They were tapping the pipe when there was the sound of ice moving, and the holes stopped squirting water as water was replaced by a vacuum.

When we came back to the house, the outside faucet was pouring water! We got a hose set up to prevent the pipes from freezing, and got our water system set back up.

This thaw also proved the area is a flood plain. There are puddles everywhere, and the whole area is muddy. I guess that's good for the farming.