…with props to Yoko Ono for the post title. Actually, it’s not that the Great White Shank household is all water, it’s that this week we’re all about water.

Actually, not just water, but water and sewer – you know, like the kind of commissions every town and city has. And believe me, outside of (perhaps) electrical, there’s nothing a homeowner fears more than issues involving water and sewer.

Unfortunately, this week we’re up to our eyeballs in both. In the front yard we’re going to have to have 44 ft. of sewer line ripped up because we’ve got a line that has lost its downhill slope on its way out to the town sewer line and a Y-joint that appears to have become dislodged to some extent from the town sewer. Which in turn means digging up the line, boring a tunnel underneath our sidewalk, and cutting through the concrete in our driveway to fix. The cost? eight – count ’em, eight – Gs. In the back yard I’ve got old landscaping lines that have become so brittle that when I tried to cap a leak a couple of weeks ago the line kept splitting down the side. I suppose the easiest solution would be to dig the line up myself down to the main connection and cap it there, but I’m not sure I won’t find even more problems. Or even be able to cap it there. The thing is, I know I’ve got leaks in the system – my water bill tells me so – so I’ll be making a call out to my landscaping company to get it fixed short-term and a quote for ripping up the entire system and replacing it with new tubing. And I’m guessing that could be a couple more Gs right there.

The sad thing is that we had been making truly great progress on getting our credit card bills down. Now we’ll just have to stay patient, get what needs to be done done and pick up the good fight from there.