Last week of September - septic time :)

Lots more digging and filling in:  first off, the trench for the hydro feed.

Iain is supervising, natch.

Ralph's fine touch with the backhoe.

 Once the trench was dug, we had to constantly remind ourselves it was there, especially when wandering home from Dodie and Myle's place, in the dark.

Iain had to dig some bits by hand, as the area was too delicate for Ralph to attempt with the backhoe.  Here, he is working on the water line trench.  We ended up only going part way with it, as it seemed best to not hook everything up, only to have it freeze.

 Septic systems are necessary, but how many of us get a close look at them?  Well, this is the time, before it gets all nasty and smelly.  Just a few pics to give you the basic idea of what was happening;

The big white box on the upper left is the tank, being craned into place.  Ralph has made a nice deep hole for it.

An area had to be excavated for the weeping tile.

Hard at work to fill things in.

I have a few more pics, and I'm going to post them, too.  That's up next.