... and now my yard is destroyed.

The title of my rant for today is one of the statements we all got to complete in school at one point in time. I can recall all the stuff I would put in mine to make it as dumb as possible, however this one is actually legit.

This story goes back a few days. I noticed my front yard a little wet in places. And that place happened to be in front of the water meter at my house. No big deal really. It had been raining a lot, and I did not think nothing of it. A couple days later I noticed that the wet area was still there, and their was no rain, so there was obviously a problem.

Pulling off the lid to the water meter, there it was. The whole thing was full of water, and slowly leaking out and causing a swamp area in my front yard, flowing down the hill, puddling up in places.

So first thing I did was call the land lord to advise him, I then also called the water company, leaving messages for both of them.

After some conversation with the water company and looking at the meter to realise it was not running, so the leak was not on my end, and was part of the pipe from the water company. They came up... looked around a little, and commented on how big of a pain it will be, and the next morning they will be there to get started to fix the leak.

The next day the electric company and water came up to the house and marked all over the yard with some bright spray paint. Making a pretty design all across the yard. After that the water company decided to start digging. Digging a hole out in the front of the yard around the meter, to see what they could see I guess, and then a matching hole in the back... not sure why for that one. I think they were wanting to move the line, and decided not to put the meter there, and eventually filled up the hole again.

Leaving filled holes in the yard they left.

The next morning, they came again, except this time with a bobcat, and a ditch witch. O_O

So they decided to put the meter from the side, and move it to the other end of the house, and cut off the pipe that was causing the leak. Again not really doing anything with the hole they dug in the back yard. Using the ditch witch they dug a ditch about 40 yards long and buried the pipe across my yard from where it was originally, to the end of the house. Luckily it was under the deck, so it is not as bad.

So to get the big picture, they filled in the holes they made, however they did not pack it at all. So it looks like I have a fresh grave in my back yard next to the back door, and another one in the front under my bedroom window. And a long ditch that some of the dirt has sunk into, last night making it look like I am living on a fault line. However none of the other holes were packed at all, they just set the dirt on top of the holes, I guess hoping that the dirt would all go back to where it was before, and would never be able to tell...

... and now my yard is destroyed.