I’ve taken to drinking sloe gin. Except it’s spelled s-l-o-w around here, just like the work on the sewer pipe.

After serious delays due to weather – we can’t curse the rain that came in mid-late November since Texas has long been in a serious drought (but oh how I would like to) – the city moved the pipe and constructed a new manhole. Typed out, it seems all easy-peasy, but reality is far different.

Step One: Digging out the old pipe.

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