correct installation procedure

[reddragdiva]

so our drain outside was blocked and causing a minor flood in the back yard. this happens a lot. the drains in this house are crappy anyway, but since we’ve had the husky it’s generally been because she’s taken the grate off - she considers it simply incorrect to have the grate there or something - and then dropped a destroyed tennis ball into it.

but the grate was in place. so maybe it was an excess of dog hair from her weekly bath. or maybe it was just being crappy again. or something.

finally arkady went out to investigate with the draining rods.

alba had removed the grate, dropped a destroyed tennis ball in, then put the grate back. so er she’s tidying up after herself. good?

i’m now imagining a future civilisation formed by a species evolved from huskies. crack-addled mechanics, communicating in a language whose atoms are bouncing and yapping.

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[also-huey.livejournal.com]

A snow-dog is a combination of a child's teddy bear of the highest quality, and a natural disaster of the greatest destructiveness.

[greylock]

You have a husky?

It seems unlikely that a dog would do that (as smart as huskies are), more likely it moved it, dropped the ball and someone picked it up and put it back. Am I missing something?

I am interested in draining rods. They are a fascinating idea, and could have saved me hundreds of dollars.

[reddragdiva]

Yes, literally nobody had been out in the yard in that time except the dog. She's quite capable of putting it back, just like she removes it - she'd just never wanted to before.

Google on "drain clearing rods" and be enlightened. It's still laborious and fiddly, but it makes it possible.

[greylock]

As someone who has enjoyed the Toxic Tampon Shit Volcano, I am all about your drain magic.

[reddragdiva]

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