Several false starts

Okay, so the daffodils don't look like they'll be blooming any more this year. They bloom once a year and that's it. Trim the flowers off them and any dead tulips and allow them to form more bulbs for next year. Still have mid and late blooms to come in the same patch. 

It snowed a couple of days ago, which did more damage to some plants which had started. However, it had rained all night before snowing in the morning. The deep soaking has done a lot of good through much of the garden and especially for the grass. Paths I had laid out are now becoming recognizable. Some flower seeds are sprouting at this time, so waiting to see some flowers, hopefully soon!

Once I got the well pump set up, it pumped very strongly for a few minutes, then tapered off and went dry. Since I can't get the pipe any deeper, decided to call an expert. They said it sounds like the lower well casing has caved in. Nothing to do but drill another well. However, they were suggesting a shallower well? Hmm. At $800+ for a 2" well and $1600+ for a 4" well, decided instead to try what the next door neighbor suggested. Got a gallon of muriatic acid this morning and poured it down the well. Let that sit for a couple of days, then hook the pump up and pump it out. From the sound of things, this well may be drilled to modern standards and have a screen for a long range of the lower pipe. That screen can clog with sediment and iron decay. Plus there could be other stuff dumped down in there I am not aware of. 

So, if the acid doesn't work, I'll next try getting some galvanized pipe and a well point. Then try simply driving the well point with the pipe deeper into the existing well. 

Several points involved here. One is that I am fully convinced I can get this well to work. Next is the fact that the well company I called has a video inspection rig, which they did not even suggest sending over, even though they are only three blocks away. I had a feeling about them before contacting them in the first place and now it looks like that feeling was correct. Third is the difficulty in getting a permit for a new well. Having a new well drilled, even with a previously existing well on the property, has become much more difficult (and probably expensive) to obtain. Which is stupid because then people are more likely to dump toxic chemicals down their wells to try and save existing wells. Yes, I am doing the same thing but I am going to pump those chemicals out. Some people flush the chemicals downward. 

Okay, have things to do.