The Septic Tank Mountain

Well, I promised to warn folks about dumb things we did/ shouldn't have done when building a house in the country and here's a good one: don't build a septic tank mountain.

The blame is not really ours. While it may not show up on the accompanying photo, the installer of our septic bed saw nothing wrong with creating a huge hill to accommodate the septic instead of properly preparing this area with sand and then excavating downward. Problem is, there is now no economical way to fix it except to try to landscape around it, and the hump, as we call it, makes this  lower field, one of the few arable places on our farm, unusable.

Can you tell that I am ticked off?  How did you guess!  This is the type of thing that a contractor should discuss beforehand and sort out with the homeowner, who just may have plans that don't include  a ski jump in the backyard!

Other than that, the second floor is now shaping up with a spectacular view from the deck that takes in Georgian Bay including the ski runs across the lake at Blue Mountain, and from here, you can't see the backyard bump at all.

Son Greg, visiting from Brazil, takes in the great view from the 2nd storey.