Lately our life around the house has been a bit nutty:

Hubby is woking a swing-shift (middle of the night) for a few weeks in order to support and work with users and programmers in Europe and Asia for the project he is managing, so that's got the family schedule a bit haywire, but we are managing.

Then I spend each day researching and meetng with contractors, county, state, and town officials about converting our house to municipal sewer and water. Its like jumping through hoops and then realizing you have a long row of hurdles after that. I'm not frustrated YET... actually the sewer part is fairly straighforward. Its eliminating our well that is a real headache, due to the number of contractors that have to do their specific parts of the job  - so until I get all of the specific County legalities spelled out (the single guy who handles this is, naturally, on vacation until next week) I can't get an accurate estimate on the cost of the job. There is nothing WRONG with our well or the water pouring forth from it - in act its like drinking and bathing in Evian, its so pure and delicious. BUT the location of the well is directly behind the house - in the only location where we can build an addition. If I can get nail down exact requiements for easments from the vault and well head from the county, then it might be possible for our architecht to come up with a design that would allow us to keep the well. But until I know for sure...I'm gonna keep "diggin'" for as much information as I can get.