Retraction of the Retraction of the Pond Pump Retraction

This is starting to sound like some kind of soap opera.

In a nutshell here is what's going on:

First
I bought a new pump for my pond back in August. I dug out the dirt under the fake rock and installed the pump in what is now called the Pump Pit.  Five days following the gala switch flipping ceremony the damn pump started leaking.

Then
The company stood by their product and sent me new seals for the pump... a $30.00 value. I installed the seals and re-installed the pump.  All was well with the world once again.

A few days ago
I purchased and installed a water alarm. The alarm is supposed to detect water and sound a loud alarm if said detection resulted in a positive answer versus the desired negative answer (ya see, negative is sometimes positive... got that?).  This morning the alarm did go off and woke me from a sound sleep.  I dressed and grabbed my jacket and headed for the pump pit. I looked inside but couldn't see any water.  I said, "Damn cheap ass alarm!" I stomped back into the house.  Oh, did I tell you it was dark outside.... no? Well, later I went out to the pump pit to re-position the sensor for the water alarm... would you believe that damn pump was leaking again? You should believe it because there was about an inch of water in the bottom of the pump pit.  I apologized to the alarm for my hasty judgement at 00:dark:30.

Now
As in today, I once again contacted the nice pump folks in Oregon. We decided that since this is the second failure of the pump for something that is supposed to last "at least" 4-5 years that something else must be causing the seals to leak. I had to ship the pump back to Oregon. Why I saved that heavy duty box the pump arrived in I can't say but I'm sure glad I did. I got it all packed up and over to UPS and it's on it's way.  I sure hope they find what's wrong and resolve this issue once and for all.  Maybe I won't run the pump this winter... maybe I won't have a pump to run!!!  Nah... can't even think that way.

The jury is still out on what mysterious disease the pump has that causes it's to leak all over the pump pit.  I hope the nice guys in Oregon are up to the challenge.

A silent whoohoo.