Well, the digger finished last week and we ran electricity to the property and should start the water system pipelines this week. I have the parts, just waiting on the labor crew. It will be the same crew that did the electricity, but I paid them for that and need to wait until it has been spent.
We moved 330 trucks of dirt, that accounts for about � of an acre 6 feet deep, the other 3 feet we spread around filling in low spots. All of that dirt and I still had to bring in 10 truck loads of clay/rock mixture to build a road. With all of the rain we were having the ground became very soft and the trucks kept getting stuck.
With a little over a third of the pond dug we had 7� of water, which had to be pumped down to 3�, man did I hate to see all of that water go.
We have also started planting the banks and watering by hand. The city water company is on tap to install a main to our location but we aren�t sure when, plus there is a rule that you need an address before they will hook us up. For an address, house plans need to be approved by the sub-district office then taken to the district office to the Address Guru. On the other property, when we needed electricity, we just gave the Guru a fresh fish and went home all addressed up, the house approval came several months later. So we will have to explore that one a little more.
The only bad part, for now, is the weather, the wind patterns are already shifting to the first monsoon. Weather from that side, Andaman Sea, should not happen until mid May of a little later. That coupled with the monsoon from the gulf side lasting until a week and a half ago, usually finishes in late December or early January, leaves very little dry time for establishing ground cover on the banks.
The picture is another of my attempts at panoramic shots.
