Little House in the Big Woods - Where the Grass is Greener

Credit to the late humor columnist, Erma Bombeck, who pointed out that 'the grass is always greener over the septic system'. 

Foxgloves

  

Excavator ready to dig the drainfield. 

Looking for optimistic signs of progress and greener grass on this side of my fence; I found such signs in the arrival of the excavating equipment to trench a long, gravity flow line for my drainfield. A big hole for the concrete septic tank and a line that bends around the south end of the house and drops downslope between the [future] garden and [erstwhile] orchard. A design that should serve me well, as we've all known the classic principle since the beginning, that shit runs down hill. 

Daisies grow greener over the septic tank

Diggin' in the daisies and through mid-summer's tall grass, the trench and holes were put into the earth. The plumbing will soon follow. And then can the dream of indoor flush toilets be far behind? 

Ah, civilization.                                                                                                                

Sea of grass on 10 acres to be dug up

Unplumbed house under construction

Trench downslope to drainfield