A Hole, Or Lest We Forget The Trenches!

Time to dig trenches for the 'services.' Who doesn't love watching a trench get dug by a piece of heavy machinery?


In goes the electricity, as well as the phone and the cable.


A trench from the middle of the front of the house was dug so old water can go out and the new water can come in. Very important!


As per usual, the aerial shot.


The conduits were first covered in sand, then 'back filled' with the excavated soil. The difference in soil appearance will let future civilizations know they're 'getting warm' as they dig through the rubble looking for valuable plastics to melt. Someone or another mentioned something about sand protecting the pipes from being crushed by big rocks. (Yeah, right...)


The kind neighbor lady who made us cookies way back when looked at all the goings on and said in her kind neighbor lady way "It's always something ya? I feel so very sorry for you both."

Oh if she only knew the half of it!

But all that begins eventually ends, and our excavator ended nicely with gentle slopes and the promise to return in the spring to "get fussy" with the grade.