Is that a 30 foot derrick in your yard or are you just happy to see us?

So, the well failure is in its second week and we hired someone to do the job. He was recommended by a friend and he seemed like a nice guy. He was straight forward with us, was willing to get paid over several months and most importantly was willing to start as soon as the weather cooperated. After our Nor'easter on Friday, he was there bright and early Monday morning.

First some good news. He only needed to drill down about 300 feet. At $10 a foot, the less deep the better. There are wells in our neighborhood that go down 600 feet so we did get some luck here. He only needed 20 feet of cement casing down to bedrock. At $17 a foot, again we are lucky. Some wells in the area need 100 feet of casing or more.



Some more good news. He expects to have the trench dug for pipe, pipe installed, pump installed, water tested and a completion form submitted to the town today. Seems like a lot to get accomplished in one day but our desire for hot showers on demand, flushing toilets and attacking the dishes piled up in the sink begs, BEGS for optimism. However even if we have to wait another day, the end can be seen on the horizon. Again lucky in that the other driller we tried to hire, would not have even been here for another couple of weeks.

Now for the bad news. Total cost is somewhere around $6000. Its money we don't have but will figure out how to pay it off some way. It has been another bump in the road to Las Cruces, a large one; maybe even a pothole of sorts but this too shall pass. I am not going to let some hole beat us. We have endured!


(Click to embiggen. These are our cats, Millie on the left, Kanye on the right, playing on their new toy. Hopefully they will not be too disappointed when the DRILLMASTR 1600 leaves!)