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I went outside the other day to find the kids hammering a stake into the ground… and had it explained to me that they were digging a well.  For what, you might ask, since we already have running water?  Their plan was to get cups of water from the well (they were making sure to turn the stake as they "drilled" so that it would be wide enough for a cup) and to dump them into our sink so that the water company would think it was just our water and we'd keep getting more and more extra water for free.  Pretty good plan, right?  

They worked and worked and worked on the well for hours and hours and days.  They set up cones and probably would have been OSHA approved, they had such good safety policies.  They had work schedules and water breaks and one day brought out chairs to rest on, invited friends to join the work when they came over (much more fun than playing) and were nice to each other the WHOLE time.  I would have let them dig to China.  

Unfortunately, the location of their well was also the location of the new sod.  The day after they hit mud, the well had to be filled in… most of the drillers took the news well, and the one that didn't recovered quickly with the new project of planting the sod.