Backed up sewer

Last Saturday morning I had plans of running errands and working at my Dad's house.  Those plans changed when I flushed the toilet upstairs and Dale yelled from the downstairs bathroom, "Don't flush the toilet any more!  Don't shower!  Don't run any water down the drains!  We have a big problem here!!"  Looking back over the week I should have seen the signs.  The downstairs toilet was unusually dirty.  I just assumed the kids somehow made the mess.  Then Bryson told me that while he was on the downstairs toilet, someone flushed the upstairs toilet and his toilet "bubbled up underneath him"!  It wasn't until Saturday morning that the sewer truly backed up into the house.  We hoped and prayed it was going to be an easy fix, but you just never know.  Dale called to see if someone could come over and drain our septic tank, hoping that's all that needed done.  The last time we had it drained was 2007.  When Dale told the lady we were a family of nine, she said, "Oh!  You  need to have yours pumped every two years!"

 Brady dug it up and Dale removed the lid.

 Fortunately the septic service already had a truck out in Littlestown, so they came fairly soon after we called.

 During the process Dale had to dig another hole. This one much deeper than the first.  He was sore afterward!

Well, that was the problem, an overflowing septic tank!  Thank goodness that's all there was to it!  When the toilets were flushing normally and everything was draining as it should, Kaden helped to fill in the holes.