We are doing a lot of work in our back yard right now to put in a swimming pool. A trench needed to be dug from where the gas and electric comes into our house to the backyard where it can be connected to the mechanics of the pool. We have had to deal with a three-foot deep trench running around the side and back of our house. During the construction I noticed that the trench was full of water.
Now ... if I still lived in Michigan that would not be the unusual, I have hit the water in digs around my house there before, but in Las Vegas? This is the desert after all! Something was wrong when a two-foot deep trench is full of water in the desert. I dug down to find the source and found that the water was coming from under my garage. That was even more curious since there are no water lines running under the floor of my garage. Where was the water coming from?
A week before this I noticed one of the trees in my front yard had a lot of water around it. I thought to myself that the head of the dripper for that tree was off and it needed to be fixed. More water where it wasn't supposed to be.
It didn't hit me until a few weeks later that the two might be related. I remembered that the tree was right on top of the water main that came from the road to our house and I noticed that the head of the dripper was fine and even when I shut all the water off to the sprinkler system of my front yard the tree still had water. I think you can see where I am going with this ... I dug down under the tree and found my water main broken and leaking. It has so saturated the ground that it was filling the trench on the opposite side of my house - 30 foot away! When I fixed the water main, I fixed the water-filled trench.
This week two things happened that seem totally unrelated but I believe are connected just like my wet tree and water filled trench. The first thing happened at the Super Bowl half-time show where one singer ripped off the top of another singer and exposed more than her body. The second thing was the abduction of an 11 year-old girl, and subsequent finding of her dead and abused. Two totally unrelated items, right? I don't think it would be very hard to follow the connection between the two. Wouldn't it be great if we could run to Home Depot and get the right part to take care of it?