Monday one of the grandkids came in the house after playing outside and he smelled pretty awful. I thought to myself, he is a little old to be messing his pants. I asked Patty if she smelled anything and he responded that it was smelly like that in the backyard. I went out and checked and there was poop and toilet paper all over. He evidently had walked through it and had it on his shoes. I did some investigating and found that The line going into the sewer had plugged and “stuff” was coming out around the inlet on the septic tank. I scooped up everything on the ground into several 5 gallon buckets and dug the dirt out away from the pipe going into the tank which took me a couple of hours. The inlet was old cement and had busted off. I called the septic tank people and they said they could make it out today so no toilet flushing for the last 24 hours. They weren’t to full by the time everything was working again. Kind of reminded me of porta potties. I plan out every day each morning so that I can make the best use of my time, but then there are days like this that sort of “mess” up the schedule. It is good when these “poop days” happen to not get upset or uptight and enjoy the humor and the variety in the normal schedule. I try to train myself to have right thinking and attitudes on little trials like this so when a big one comes along I handle it the same way. Growing is all about “training consistently” not about “trying harder”. I think I will take a shower now that everything is working good before I go to the church for prayer. I smell kind of bad.