One of the unwritten rules of rural real estate is this: when you buy a house, you check and make sure there is a septic tank – usually nobody knows – and if there isn’t, the seller pays for one. Otherwise, you take the old farmhouses pretty much as they are. The good people from Snell Septic in Easton came by the New Bedlam Farm  yesterday to locate our septic, and we had a great time watching them, listening to the wonderful stories of things they find and seeing how they work.

First off, they flush an electronic mouse down the toilet and locate it with a receiver above ground. Then they dig where the signal is. We found not one but two smallish (100 gallon tanks) and everything was working as it should be. We get the inspector’s report Friday but he was drooling over the workmanship of the house much of the time, so I don’t think there will be any problem. We had a lot of fun with Chris Preble, the realtor and the crew from Snell.

I think if you can have fun looking for a septic tank, you can enjoy much of life.