This has been a very wet fall. I don’t know exactly how many inches we’ve gotten, but I do know that we’ve had many more wet, gray days than not this month. Our RV is not sited on a concrete pad. Instead, we’re parked on grass. Admittedly, there is a thin layer of gravel under the parking space, but the ground around the RV has become saturated, and everything is turning to muck. We park our vehicles on the grass, too, so each time we back them out, we’re churning up more and more mud. My patio mats had gotten soaked, so I decided to pull one up and drape it over our picnic table in hopes that we’d get a sunny day or two so I could dry it out, clean it, roll it up, and stow it in the basement. No luck. It’s draped over the picnic table but still soaked, and the area of dead grass where it used to be is pure mud. Going out to empty the holding tanks is getting to be a very messy task. Maybe I need to buy a couple of bales of straw and spread it around just so we can walk around the RV and to our cars without making a mess.
I would be a very happy girl, indeed, if this rain would just stop for about a month so we could dry out. Our septic tank keeps getting backed up in this wet weather, so the problems that already exists with our sewer system are further aggravated. Until it dries up, the repair service won’t be coming out to install the new valve on the black water tank. That’s not good.
*sighs* What I wouldn’t give right now for a nice asphalt parking space for the RV and a lovely concrete pad for the patio.
Tags: holding tanks, rain, septic systems, weather