Big Hole

The first round of soybeans that we planted, a quick shower came up and stopped me.  The ground was very dry so the water quickly absorbed, the sun came back out, so after a 10 minute wait I was able to continue planting.  Thursday night we were chased from the field by a shower, but we got back in Friday afternoon.  We only had a trace of rain Sunday, so Monday should have been a big day.
But it was instead, one of those days!

A feed auger motor went bad while I was doing chores.  While I was replacing it so I could feed pigs, I sent my brother to borrow a neighbor's backhoe so we could find the water leak in the driveway.  The backhoe operator dug the hole a little too deep, and caught the water line and ripped it apart.  It was the line that feeds the house and barn. We got it spliced back together and turned the water back on and water started pouring into the hole.  We dug towards the water and found that when the hoe caught the line it pulled it out of an old splice a few feet to the east.  We spliced it back together and turned the water back on.  Now water was bubbling up through the ground ten feet to the west! We re-positioned the backhoe, and kept enlarging the hole.  We found another old splice that was pulled apart when the hoe caught the line.  After this one was spliced back together and the water was turned back on, there were no more leaks but also no water getting to the house or barn.

The only thing that could have happened was maybe mud and gravel got in the line while it was apart and plugged it.  We hooked up a bunch of garden hoses to a hydrant on another water line, and back fed water through a hydrant on this line.  I took one of the splices apart again, and when the hydrants were opened, the pressure blew out the mud and gravel, and the line was clear.  After splicing the line back together again, we finally had water where we needed water!
Somewhere in there, I made a trip to the hardware store for plumbing supplies.

By now it was almost 3:00 in the afternoon and I had missed lunch.  One of the boys had gotten the planter ready, so I was in the field a few minutes later, hoping to get it planted before the next rain hit.  The backhoe also headed to the same field to quick fix a couple of broken tiles.
The field was finished after dark, but about an hour before the rain started.

Today was a little easier day.

Our farmyard driveway with the "crater".

And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
Genesis 26:32