Easy Come, Easy Go............... Happy Father's Day, Brad

Some of you have heard me speak about how God seems to provide for us financially, especially when a crunch-time hits --- and most often it's a fairly small crunch-time thing, but nonetheless worrisome. A couple of weeks ago I had some discussion with the company holding our mortgage. Without going into lots of details, I'll just say that it turns out they had withheld excess dollars in escrow for the Amherst County taxes. They said it would take a couple of months to be sorted out, so I just put the entire thing out of my mind.

Today we got a nice check in the mail for the escrow overage that had been withheld. However, also today we found that water was not draining out of the kitchen sink, or for that matter any place in the house. The problem seemed to be that the sewer drain pipe going from the house to the septic tank was blocked. This had happened once before some years ago and it was determined that tree roots had breached the pipe.

So Brad called someone with experience in this area. Sure enough, they found a huge blockage in the drain pipe. But in the process of finding the problem they also discovered that the pipe was cracked and broken, and a section of it will need to be replaced. I won't go into all the smelly details of today's episode. To finish the job, some parts had to be obtained, plus a couple of different tools.

So guess what is happening here on Father's Day? Brad will be assisting in this repair work. Some old terra cotta piping will be removed and new PVC piping put into place. Oh boy!!

And the nice check we received in the mail is another example of "just-in-time" economics. Thank you, God, for giving us a way to pay for this unforeseen expense!