The electrician came and added a pipe or two to the garage roof. The Soils Engineer was here for the first time in a long time, while the contractor used the BobCat to move dirt out of the piles on the house lot to behind the back wall of the house. The dirt had to be tamped down with a loud machine, which echoed off the canyon walls and sounded like helicopters overhead. The Soils Engineer had to verify that it was tamped hard enough.
At some point this afternoon, a swarm of bees (quite possibly our hive) surrounded the working men and flew around the chickens, both of which were not happy till the bees went away. It was suggested that the constant loud banging had agitated the bees. It is a bit hard to see because of the shadow in the first picture, but the dirt is packed in behind the wall (left side) not quite to the top.
The second picture is a final photo of the rebar behind the garage where the 9000 gallon water bag will go. The first cement truck, with a boom again, is supposed to show up at 7AM. There will be 5 cement finishers to trowel everything smooth.
Behind the back house wall
behind the garage