Tomorrow morning, the foundation crew arrives to start setting forms. So this is our last chance to get rid of some problematic trees leaning over the construction areas. So the past couple days I have been removing them. A couple were a bit tricky hanging in such a way that they could have fallen on the existing garage. But I finally got them all down. All that is left is to cart away the pieces, probably tonight after it cools down a bit.

Here is a shot of the downed tree, a fairly large cottonwood, which now lays in the office construction footprint.

Additional progress is the digging of the trench which will hold power, water, and communications cables from the pump house, where the power meter is located, to the barn footprint. Here are two shots, the first from the barn side, the second from the pump house. Its about a 250' trench, 2-4' deep. The first also shows another downed tree that had to be removed.

One bit of excitement, while digging near the pump house, the water line from the water well head to the pump house was damaged. That happened yesterday. They fixed it this morning. Here is a shot of the exposed repaired water pipe.

One nice thing about all this digging, it will allow me to finally be able to finish installing a conduit pipe from the automated gates to the pump house providing permanent power to the gates. Until now, this was done with a low voltage line running 400' on the ground from the pump house to the gate controller.