{"id":1075,"date":"2008-01-09T10:54:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T16:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2008-01-09T10:54:06","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T16:54:06","slug":"digging-a-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=1075","title":{"rendered":"Digging a hole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we leave on an Airstream trip! \u00a0 Whew — just in time for our sanity. \u00a0 The house craziness has been a lot of work.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday the gas plumbers showed up to dig a new trench in our back yard. \u00a0 We need a new gas line because we want to have a gas stove, and the code doesn’t allow us to to connect another appliance using the existing (small) line. \u00a0 All the utility providers were called out to \u00a0 mark their lines, but Cox Cable didn’t show up. \u00a0 We didn’t know they had a line in our back yard, until of course the plumbers “found” it with their Ditch Witch. \u00a0 Cox got a call and sent someone out to repair it.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, they don’t actually repair the line. \u00a0 They simply replace the entire thing, underground. \u00a0 At first they said they’d do it when we ordered cable service, which isn’t going to happen for a loooong time, if ever. \u00a0 But we didn’t want them coming back to dig up our newly landscaped yard next year, so after some negotiations Cox agreed to come back today and lay the replacement line in the same trench as the new gas line.<\/p>\n

\"tucson-house-cracked-pipe.jpg\"<\/a> The gas plumbers also discovered that the sewer line that we are using for our full hookup in the carport isn’t buried very deep. \u00a0 In fact it was only about 12″ under the surface. \u00a0 So they clipped that with the Ditch Witch too … but spliced in a repair today. \u00a0 \u00a0 At least now we know where everything is.<\/p>\n

My camera is back — just in time for our trip. \u00a0 The CCD is cleaned and the problem with the onboard flash is fixed. You can expect to see a lot of photos from this week’s trip, as I start to use it again. We will be on the road by 1:30 pm today, heading to the Phoenix area for a night and then west. \u00a0 Time to go hitch up the Airstream!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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