It's raining alot these days, which slows us down. The picture on the right shows the waterproofing layer painted on the outside of the foundation; it needs 2 days of rain-free weather before it can be applied, so there is still lots more to paint on. The picture above left shows friend Dave Jeschke working a Bobcat to help fill in part of the power trench (the day he helped us, he was on the Bobcat and James was on a small excavater, it looked like dueling trucks as they went back and forth! Toys for boys). We dug the trench for power from the downhill neighbor up to our property line and got it filled last weekend; since then James has been working on the trench from the property line transformer, up the driveway to the the garage where the temporary power pole sits.
The picture on the left is the power trench as it runs along the last leg of the driveway, up the hill to the house and garage, 3 feet deep and a foot wide. The white conduit pipe carries the fiberoptic and power cables, and there is a phone line also in the ditch 12 inches away. On the right is James standing next to the temporary power pole. As he said, it's the first electrical project he has accomplished (and it passed inspection). Power folks are supposed to come on Tuesday to actually hook up the power, pulling the cables up through the conduit using the cord we placed (so far no live wires). We had to special order the rope as the standard spools weren't long enough to run the whoe length.
James also worked this week to re-cut the driveway; originally the last leg of the driveway was a 90 degree turn leading to a 16 degree slope, which no trucks could navigate. The new improved route takes a hypotenuse of that angle , which should make it navigable. (Pictures on a future post..)
