When a Ditch Is Exciting

Remember when we had a pretty driveway? Well, then a ditch gets dug for utilities and it doesn't look like much anymore. But this is very exciting! Why? Because it is more progress!

By the end of this week we should have water and electric lines up to the build site. They will also lay internet, phone, and gas in the same trench.

The green boxes are kind of strange. They are just like big green Rubbermaid containers that will be buried in the ground serving as junction boxes for the electrical line every couple hundred feet. Not sure why they wouldn't run a continuous line from the road but we are taking our builders word on that one.

The trench was dug with an excavator and is about two feet wide by three feet deep. Doesn't look too bad here, but then Mike jumped in!

Liz certainly wasn't getting down there (and back up easily).

And trenches can be pretty in their own sense. Doesn't this look like a scene from Lord of the Rings or something?

We assume this is where the last junction box will be and where they will put the temporary pole for use during construction. The house build site is just to the right of this photo.

It is a good thing we have access to our property from the lot next door. The trench cuts our driveway right in half. My poor little Rogue was not getting through any of that!

Also, we are getting just about record low temperatures here in Tennessee. We are not happy to be breaking out winter coats, gloves, and multiple layers when we leave the apartment. We thought we left most of that back in Ohio! What the heck is going on?

So it is hard to see, but there is definitely ice down there. We know most of the country is getting these below normal temperatures, but we are ready for our average 47° January!

Super exciting utility pole!

Even with an ugly ditch and mounds of dirt, we definitely enjoy the scenic view every time we visit the property.

As mentioned, it was too freakin cold (especially in the shade) so Liz was ready to go home.

You have to click on this lovely panoramic that Mike took!

Until we have another update - Toodles!!!

Liz and Mike

1/3/18 Update

Drove by and a couple disgruntled contractors were gluing together conduit, 1" SCH 40 conduit for the water line and 2-1/2" SCH 40 conduit for the water and electrical line respectively. I believe I heard the trench is about 1100 feet long. That's a lot of piping! I think the contractors were disgruntled because it's about 30 degrees out and they've been working on this for a while, sun's going down, etc...