Water Supply - Under Construction

Life here in these islands is not all sunshine and kicking cans as this old goat was reminded this morning . Had a visit from a rep from the realty company that owns this here subdivision . Seems they have a bit of concern as to why our water bill is now 5,000 pesos when the bill was just paid two days ago .   :-)

Well , i knew we had a small leak in one of the bathrooms but , damn , we don't own a swimming hole .  :-) Turns out there is a major leak somewhere in the main line that runs from the street to the house or from the drive way to the bathrooms themselves . Now , the real fun starts as this ain't a conventional water line routing .

Seems that somewhere along the line one of those decidedly Filipino decisions occurred which might never come to the mind of a westernized goat . That would of course be laying a concrete driveway over the water line to the house . Never mind the fact that materials used in these pastures tend to not be designed for trouble free operation ... as in , cheaper is " always " better .

Well , we opted for the temporary fix of installing a cut off valve at the street side water meter and fixing the small leak in the one bathroom . Not much damage for that fix up but the long term problem is definitely gonna have to be discussed with the owner of this here pasture as our water bill is now approaching rent status .

Come to think of it the dang San Miguel Grande also shot up from 60 to 90 peso overnight due to the " sin tax " . Fact is , it's just getting harder for old goats to find a place to hang out and ruminate these days . Hoping you are having a better one .  :-)