Pretty exhausted.

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I did get a hose in, from outdoors, as a waste line.  I had to warm the house a bit, to get it to become flexible enough to use.  Then got it attached.  Finally, I opened the drain valve at the base of the tank and let it go out.  It is slowly filling the tub.  I ran the pump several times.  But it empties a lot faster than the tub fills.  A couple of runs, just to make sure everything was working.

It is.  So, now, I am giving it fifteen minutes to drain.  Watching isn't going to make it go any faster.  And, if it spills, it spills.  I have some worries that the tank won't empty enough.  I guess I'll just have to find out.  I am sure, in time, it will dump enough to be below the top element.  After that?  After that I may just have to close it up, remove the hose, and let the water flow into a drain basin down there, and use the pump from there.

Tired, sore, sleepy, and really wanting a hot shower.  A bath would be a dozen times better, but that is so much work.

So far, no major spills or leaks or splashes.  The house does not tighten well, so that connection is spraying.  But that is well contained in the tub.  It isn't even sprinkling out onto the floor.  And, yes, it is getting the water out to about the middle of the lawn.  It'll freeze, but, it's winter!  It does that.  It has been snowing, thawing, and freezing, for this last week, off and on.  So no worries there.

Even so, I'll just have to see if I can get to the electrical yet tonight, or even the elements.  I think so.  But It'll be a late night.  Not much I can do about it.  Work, work, work, work, work.  At least this time I can get to it.  And I have the resources to work around having few resources.  It'll sort out shortly.  Or... not.  I may have to delay some things, miss some things, or not.  Will know when I know.  But this sort of work is really getting to me.

Oh, and I did try the valve down there.  The shutoff valve?  It has a little side tester valve.  Then again, the water is off outside.  Still, it wasn't pressurized.  I don't know if it will hold back the water though.  I think it failed at that, to some degree.  Will find out when I turn the water on outside again, next time.  Hard to know.

Last I saw, early into the dark, it was 28 out there.  Hopefully it hasn't gotten much colder since.  I did close the lid on the water shutoff valve, the outside one.  Just in case.  Though it may get a bit sticky anyway.

Way early, but I want to check the water level, run the pump.  See if it is continuing to drain or is finished.  Live and learn.  Later.