tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7922232.post6379896877840307995..comments2024-02-10T01:32:22.643-06:00Comments on The Quick Gray Fox: You would never believe I'm on vacationPoppy B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01532483657395207695noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7922232.post-19212269964918188542007-08-18T08:21:00.000-05:002007-08-18T08:21:00.000-05:00Trophy dryer - love it! I have a brand new (space...Trophy dryer - love it! I have a brand new (space age) washer and dryer (we recently moved into a house where the appliances were over 20 years old), and they scare me. They remind me of the computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey.<BR/><BR/>Septic tanks? Hmmm....I guess my toilet troubles could have been worse. Check out my "Favorite Posts" to see what we went through this past year.Suburban Correspondenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11488916572135296650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7922232.post-68059929924536001312007-08-17T13:15:00.000-05:002007-08-17T13:15:00.000-05:00Sweet car. Great plate. My only experience with ...Sweet car. Great plate. <BR/><BR/>My only experience with septic tanks are from when I was a kid and the grass grew really well and was very green over that sort of mushy patch in the yard. When my mother explained to me what the septic tank was, I put my fingers in my ears and refused to play in the front yard again. Nasty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7922232.post-477693957214640682007-08-16T15:05:00.000-05:002007-08-16T15:05:00.000-05:00That car rocks! What did the driver look like? D...That car rocks! What did the driver look like? <BR/>DH and I made a pact many years ago to own no more than one property. We are the summer renters who have a good time and then walk away from the problems.readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17183154070867321092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7922232.post-85280320266101710772007-08-16T13:47:00.000-05:002007-08-16T13:47:00.000-05:00I now know way more about septic tanks than I ever...I now know way more about septic tanks than I ever wanted to know, yuck. And what Susie said? Ditto for Kenmore - Sears sucks.Fanniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13256873494991946979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7922232.post-65142331934405987312007-08-16T11:56:00.000-05:002007-08-16T11:56:00.000-05:00You make me so glad our crappers are on a municipa...You make me so glad our crappers are on a municipal system that does not involve me putting anything in them than the obvious.Jennifer (Jen on the Edge)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11334111687109555812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7922232.post-61037684574595623042007-08-16T07:38:00.000-05:002007-08-16T07:38:00.000-05:00Septic issues are shitty. Congratulations on the ...Septic issues are shitty. <BR/>Congratulations on the new dryer, if it's from Whirlpool just go ahead and return it now and save yourself some time. (Bastards.)Susie Sunshinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03545706253844496925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7922232.post-6150597865493731482007-08-16T07:00:00.000-05:002007-08-16T07:00:00.000-05:00You have probably talked to professionals so you p...You have probably talked to professionals so you probably know all this, but since I'm a bossy woman who happens to live sufficiently far from the city to have a septic tank in her very own back yard, I'm going to tell you anyway. Even with bacterial additives, the tanks need to be emptied once in a while -- how much depends on how ofte you're using the house, how many people, and how big the tank. When the system needs pumping -- i.e., it has overflowed the septic field, it will smell stinky outside.<BR/><BR/>If it smells okay outside but the toilets are smelling weird, it may be the septic tank, or it may be a buildup of "iron slime" in the back of the tank, which seems to happen to us every now and again even though we have a water softener that takes out most of the excess iron. What works for us is to scrub every inch of the inside of the tank with The Works (septic safe) and to keep one of those goofy Lysol deodorizers clipped inside the bowl (also septic safe -- check the labels for the right ones). The latter doesn't just deodorize. For some reason, it seems to slow down the iron slime problem. <BR/><BR/>Good luck!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com