You pose.
No, you pose. It's your place.
OK, I'll do it.
How's this? Oh, you want a real pose?
Happy now?
First push of soil for lower dam
Not the driveway
Do you know how to work this?
Here, I'll try it.
Oops, you wanted to save this tree?
Slow pan down the hillside
This time with a narrative
These are actually huge slabs of very solid clay
Day 1 recap
End of first day. Sorry for the dark pics. The sun's gone down.
Where the main entrance will be after the soil is cut down about two more feet.
Still not into real rock yet, just heavy clay slabs.
Looking down from the northwest
Day three action
We strike coal! Really
The hillside gets more and more covered
Real progress
So many big chunks of clay that we just started pushing them with the soil
Paint shows earth yet to be removed
Drilling rock
Very heavy, iron colored rock. Is it iron ore?
Looking into lower dam
Large stone was placed with backhoe to partially hide culvert
Getting dark
Scott in silouette
Drilling video
Pretty wet in the bedroom
View from entry door toward southwest bedroom
Small trench to drain bedroom
Working on eastside inlet to larger pond
The crew
From outside bottom of larger pond
Overview of both ponds
Another perspective
Wetlands, pond, dirt pile and home site
Section of Formadrain