Lemonade: Beware

      I have never been particularly fond of the saying, "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!" The honest truth is that sometimes the best thing about a situation is to get past it.
     For instance, at this moment, I have a wallet draining hole in my back yard. The hole was created to fix what appeared to be a cracked sewer pipe. That sounded bad enough, right?
      Obviously not. I came home this afternoon and the hole was there, and nobody seemed too excited to fill it in and tell me great news. The hole was filled with what I will just call muddy water. (Let's leave that alone, it's delicate right now.)
       The pipe is in tact. So the "snake" was brought out. After snaking several times, the muddy water still does not appear to want to go away. The pipe is also clear. The city says it is not a problem with the main. There is nothing wrong with the pipe. What is forming in my yard is definitely not lemonade.
       More importantly at this point, my wallet is running out of ideas. My wallet actually asked me today if I would rather have a working sewer pipe or a trip to Florida. Well that is just ridiculous! This is certainly a lemon moment, but I honestly cannot think of one thing that I can make out of that muddy water situation that I would want to brag about! Sometimes, that is just the way it goes.  For not apparent reason, or consideration for logic, life gives you buckets of "muddy water" to live with.
      I'm really annoyed. I really have no idea what the next step is tomorrow. Thank goodness I am reasonable and know that this will not last forever. At some point the answer will be found. The pipe will work and all will be dry again. I will not be able to look at the back yard the same again for a while, but if it were not for perspective, I already would have hauled buckets full of this "muddy water" and dropped them off at city hall until I got some more help. For now, I am still feeling that it will all be okay in spite of the revolting lemonade recipe.