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The lake is a overflow to another lake. That’s why it’s called locally as the overflow... lol.

The top lake had to be drained as it was high. So from there to my fav lake down the open dam.
So now it’s closed and takes a couple of weeks to come back to stablize....
Nuts

 

Road salt and snow ruins the plastic. The only way to keep them pristine is keep it in the garage and polish it once a week and don’t drive it in the winter.
It’s a hard life up this way for a vehicle and if you want it to keep halfway decent you have to keep after it every chance you get. And with bad winters and salt it’s impossible.
So we make due...

 

I really don’t like the idea of water and electric in same ditch but damn got so much dug already for the water

 

Keep things grounded......
And turn stuff off

 

If you can, put the power 6"-12" deeper and flag it. If not double flag the trench on top of the utilities, cover 12", flag the shit out of it, go up another 6" and toss in metal cans every little bit so it can be found with a metal detector then finish it off with your favorite flavor of dirt.

 

When I'm digging and, whether I suspect there's utilities or not, I really like to see color change in the dirt and always look for it. Sometimes it's sand and sometimes it's pea gravel, but it lets me know something is/was there and we stop and probe or scratch around with a shovel. I'll use a wooden handle to probe. I'd hate to get lit up with a metal probe. We have some 480 direct buried so not much is in conduit unless we're the ones putting it in.

 

That’s one needle in a haystack you don’t want to find accidentally

 

What we would do is lay corrugated iron about 12” above the direct burial MV cable and then red caution tape about 12” above that and then yellow tape 12” above that. A JCB don’t care, but at least it may pull up enough to get someone’s attention. Quick and dirty in east africa

 

Well I had to reroute waterline cuz I don’t want it under planned concrete so was thinking on getting trencher and follow that old ditchline and run the electric

 

I almost finished

well I had to bust through some limestone shelf’s along with rocks and it’s a little over a foot deep. I need water to be deep for winter and deep for summer to have cold water.

 

https://youtu.be/GIeBM0VA73U

 

It means, we gotta blast

 

EveningPlain hot and humid here. upper80’s. hay is dang near dry and June went to her first ballgame. i stayed home and planted garden.

 

And tunneled under oak root

 

Looks like trench warfare

 

Red beans, chili powder, onion, jalapeno, bell pepper, garlic, diced tomatoes, dehydrated tomato, tomato sauce, chili mix, salt, bacon, sausage and hamburger....has a little bite to it. Lift the lid and you know it'll be interesting. It's a really slow heat.

 

Looks good but the interesting part makes me nervous

 

Nah...a couple cracker smooth it out.

I like to cook all the peppers down till the only thing left is the skin then skim those out.