Tanked

Our water tank arrived on Wednesday. Thankfully I wasn't required to take time off work to be there for the delivery. I spoke to the delivery truck driver on the phone and gave him instructions on where to put the tank and he took care of it. Fortunately he was able to use the truck crane arm to lift the tank over our fence, otherwise I was going to have to dig out a fence post and disassemble part of the fence to get the tank into the back yard.

I was shocked when I first saw the tank. I knew the dimensions but actually seeing it in our back yard it looked so huge. I tried to pull it down onto its side to roll it into position but my weight wasn't heavy enough to pull the 150kg tank over. So I called Matthew, a friend of ours who lives locally, and he came straight over and kindly helped me move the tank into its position.

On Wednesday night I went to Bunnings to buy all the plumbing bits and pieces needed to connect the tank up. At the checkout counter I had two 3 metre lengths of 90mm stormwater pipe standing on end against the trolley. They seemed quite stable but when I was signing the receipt for the credit card transaction one of them started to fall. The pipe just hit the hand basket of the woman behind me and nearly got her on the head but I managed to catch it in time. Then the other one fell in another direction, which I also managed to grab before it caused any damage or injury. All of a sudden I had 3 Bunnings employees trying to help and sort out the situation. I apologised to the woman who was unharmed. One of the Bunnings employees joked and said there were better ways of introducing yourself to the lady. I gave a definite “No, no, no” to indicate I had absolutely no interest, but in hindsight my denial might have been more offensive to her than the pipe falling on her. In all the commotion I just wanted to defuse the situation and get out of there. On the positive side a lesson can be learnt from the experience. Finding a Bunnings employee for service can sometimes be quite difficult. Next time you need assistance, just make something fall and you will magically have more help suddenly appear than you need.

Today I connected up the water tank to a down pipe. Now I just need lots of rain. Hopefully it won't take too much effort to hook up the electric pump to the tank and put the pavers back down around it.

Lani and the kids appear to be having a good time staying at Krysti and John's house in Canberra. I miss having them around, I don't particularly like the bachelor life.