And now, the fix

 Much cleaner than the patch we put in. We'll need to wait a few days to make sure it doesn't leak, and then we'll bury it with gravel, then dirt.

The bad news is that the poly main line will eventually need to be replaced. Looking on the bright side of that big expense, we will have the opportunity to design our watering system for the farm. We'll get to determine where we want hose bibs, which also means I'll need to determine what the layout of the land will be and how it will be used. It's both scary and exciting, all at the same time. But isn't everything worth doing scary and exciting?

What did YOU do this weekend?

A harmless question, wouldn't you say? Harmless unless your weekend was filled with angst, sleuthing, digging, flashlights, swearing, trips and more trips to the hardware store, calls to plumbers and well pump companies.

This is how we spent our weekend.

View from the leak, down the hill to our neighbor's back yard

It looks benign enough, but what a pain this was. The moral of the story is twofold.

The patch job done by us. 

1. When it comes time to sell your house, it is REALLY a nice thing to have a fundamental, overall graphic of the property so the new buyers don't fumble around with the really important stuff
2. Do the job right the first time. In our case we will (the plumber is coming on Thursday), in the case of the former owners, not so much.