Comments on: Our Well Ran Dry | How to Pump Water from a Lake

By: Amy Austin

Amy Austin — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:01:06 +0000

In reply to Tanya from Dans le Lakehouse.

Honest perspective and insight is great and yes, it will probably help someone else=great feeling!!

By: Tanya from Dans le Lakehouse

Tanya from Dans le Lakehouse — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 21:55:23 +0000

In reply to Julie.

I read your comment on the edge of my seat, hoping you didn’t end up with a dry well too, and I’m so happy to hear your well was okay! These things always seem to cost a fortune, I definitely went into the wrong line of work lol. Never thought I’d wake up each day and HOPE for rain 🙂

By: Tanya from Dans le Lakehouse

Tanya from Dans le Lakehouse — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 21:53:39 +0000

In reply to Amy Austin.

Thanks Amy! I’m happy to hear you like seeing this peek into real life. I’ve been trying to share more facets of our lives here on the lake. Hopefully our solution will help someone out there – or someone will give us the perfect answer, haha. That works too 🙂

By: Tanya from Dans le Lakehouse

Tanya from Dans le Lakehouse — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 21:51:54 +0000

In reply to skaetzer.

Haha, definitely not! There are a lot of hidden costs to our lake life over here. We also had historically high water on Superior, which wreaked havoc on shores so we were really blindsided by this sudden drop. Hopefully you don’t have these troubles at your place! Fingers crossed 🙂

By: Amy Austin

Amy Austin — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 21:35:03 +0000

Tanya, I feel for you guys and wow—I think it’s helpful info and it is refreshing to hear people share the reality aka not so great parts of life….we can all relate to things that are tough……it is real life!
Thanks for sharing this!

By: skaetzer

skaetzer — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 20:02:35 +0000

Wow. Thanks for the dose of reality. Guess it’s not all rainbows, pyrex and green camaros! We’ll keep an eye on things at our lake house in Northern Wisconsin, where we’ve had historically high water the last few years, But yes, it goes in cycles and lows are a-coming.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 18:28:41 +0000

I lived all of my life in the country, where water was from the well but we assumed it was guaranteed. About a decade ago I know all my neighbors started drying up and we were quite worried. It never reached any dire issue with us but I honestly had no idea what our options were. We had an old cistern we figured we may need to connect to but thankfully rain came and ended our worries. It’s always something though, I just wish that it was usually something cheaper.