THE BIG DIG

The snow was just melting off when the Brotherton Pipeline guys appeared! Our driveway looks like a plastic surgery patient with all the locate marks spray-painted on the ground the day before. We've been waiting for 2 weeks for this event to happen so we can replace the leaking, 33 year old electric waterheater with a gas one, plus have our gas insert installed in the fireplace.


The plan? This little digger would trench along side the driveway from the corner of the garage to the main in the street. Avista (the gas company here) contracts out this part to the pipeline company.


It did and made a huge, muddy mess, of course, as they couldn't do this when we had all the nice, dry weather!


Laying the yellow pipe in the trench. That's all the mud covering our driveway...


After 5 yards of gravel and a lot of shovel work, almost as good as new! Now if we could just get that plumber who has been promising us to appear for 2-weeks and ran the inside gas pipe....And then we have to call to get the meter set (Avista does that part themselves), so maybe by mid March we'll have gas here...could happen!