...running water, which we've been without since last night.
Seems the wire going down the well to the pump had several shorts in it. The guys from Bell Pump & Well were very helpful in straightening it out (replaced the wire, which wasn't exactly cheap, but not as bad as having to replace the well pump itself).
An annoying (but necessary) side effect of pulling out the well pump is that the well had to be re-chlorinated to kill any bacteria, and it takes a little bit of time to flush that out of the sytem. But, we can at least flush the toilets again, and should be able to bathe in/drink the water by tomorrow morning.
Fortunately, we have a decent supply of 5 Gallon water bottles that got us through the worst. The shower tomorrow will be long overdue, though.
Both me and the wife are pretty tired of the whole well thing. Although I do actually prefer it to city water in terms of taste and quality (and no water bill is nice too), between spending $4700 on a radon treatment system, having the water run out when we do too much laundry/showers/dishes/etc, and now this, we'll likely not be purchasing another property with a well again if we can help it. That said, municipal water supply can have it's own set of issues.
