It’s Done!

Sat, Jul 28, 2007

water problems

Our drywell project is completed! We sweated it out on one of the hottest days of the summer to finish it. I’ll keep the narrative brief, with photos:

Below: Filling with rocks.

Filling with Rocks 1

We elimated our “rock pile” with this project. Our rock pile was a collection of various rocks, bricks, broken asphalt, and broken cinder blocks, all piled around a crummy Mountain Ash tree. The pile was begun by previous owners before we moved here, and we just continued the tradition. It was quite a large pile. The yard looks so much better without it now.

Below: Filling with dirt.
God made dirt, dirt don’t hurt. ;)
Replacing the packed down mounds of dirt to the trench was the hardest part of the job.

Filling with Dirt

Filling with Dirt 2

It’s done! Only needs a cleaning up (and probably a little more dirt around the barrel).

It's Filled

The kids are beaming. They did a really great job.

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3 Responses to “It’s Done!”

  1. hh Says:
    31. July 2007 at 10:42 pm

    “God made dirt, dirt don’t hurt”…good ol’ Buffy LOL ;)
    Your children did a wonderful job! way to go!

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