Nice LMA, that'll be an interesting experience.
So for a couple of years now my driveway has had a natural spring emerging from the top... it's been eroding the pavement and also in the winter the driveway (which is long and steep) turns into a sheet of ice constantly, because there's constantly above-freezing water running down.
We had no idea what to do about it but it actually goes into the road and I live across from an intersection, so quite a few neighbors would have to deal with part of the road being a big sheet of ice every morning. I had to buy a sledgehammer and start breaking it daily last winter.
But today one of my neighbors came over and said he wanted to help me figure out what's going on. He's about 7 years older than my dad I'd say, and has kids 4 and 7 years older than me. I had figured it was a natural spring from the start but I wasn't positive. But he confirmed that it IS a natural spring because he's lived here for 38 years and apparently before there was even a house here they used to come collect water from the spring. So he knew where it started from, and he knew that a previous owner had installed some sort of drainage system down into the stream, rather than the driveway. So we started digging in this weird flat area at the top of the driveway that always seemed to be really unstable and filled with debris. Eventually after we dug out a big area about 3 feet down, we found a white PVC pipe and with some more digging we exposed the area the spring was coming from, and suddenly after an hour and a half of digging, the layers and layers of logs and paving stones and railroad ties are pushed to the side and now there's this amazing, beautiful mountain stream that trickles down through a huge mass of fine roots and tree roots and flows crystal clear down a creek bed of clay and collects in a pool that drains out the pipe. And it's a lot of water, too, totally a small stream.
So now not only do I have an awesome natural spring creek next to my house, but I don't have to deal with bitching neighbors and sledgehammering ice this winter.
It's been an all-around good day. I haven't felt this content in a while.
