Quick Connect

You may recall all the disruption we lived through when the City of Austin dug up all the neighborhood streets to install sewer lines. Well, that project finally finished and the work crews gathered up all their Road Closed signs and took their backhoes and went home. Now all that is left is for each homeowner to contract with a plumbing firm and get connected.

You have two years to make this happen (without penalty) and I was in no big hurry, since a) it cost a princely sum and b) you have to go through the selection process of which plumber to use. Part "b" sort of worked itself out. At first you saw a half-dozen different signs for companies doing work, and then you saw only two or three different signs, and finally you only saw one company's signs, and they would just move from one yard to the next as neighbors compared notes. Obviously, this was the company to do business with - the neighborhood was filled with satisfied customers.

So I called that company and they quoted a price far below what I anticipated, so we went on the list. Before Thanksgiving. Good thing I was not in a hurry. Last week they called and said they would start mid-week. Uh-oh. Rob and the kid's are coming this weekend. Are we going to be flush-able by then? Wednesday morning the crew came and by sundown we were connected! On Thursday they unconnected long enough to get the City seal of approval and when I came home from work there was no big hole in the lawn - just a small section of the yard waiting for new grass.

Only problem was I thought Luke would really like to see the hole and the machines. "You see that grass that's a little different color? There used to be this really, really big hole there."