Not for the squeamish

Dale happened to be downstairs, and one of the children flushed the toilet, and water went on Dale's head. Ew. He checked it out and found a big hole in the toilet waste pipe, as in, you could poke three fingers in there. Except that you would not do that.

It's a plastic pipe. The hole looks to me like a rat hole. It also looks like it's been there a long time, because there is a lot of sediment around the opening. Did I say ew?

Dale ductaped it. That's a start. When the sewer guy comes back to address our very own sinkhole in the backyard, we'll have him examine this as well.

Our basement has always been a little stinky around the laundry machines. Lots of people have stinky washing machines; we wondered if maybe the former owners washed a lot of cloth diapers, or something. It wasn't usually that bad. Now that the major sewer work outdoors has been done, the basement is noticeably less stinky. Our neighbors initiated the sewer work because of sewer gas coming into their basement...maybe we had it too and didn't realize. Ew. And maybe we have poop-pipe gas too.