Trenching

It’s hard to watch all the destruction going on at the Calle del Norte house, which we are buying. We’re set to close on Thursday.

Here’s a photo of a length of trench, with the casita in the background.

The new septic tank is in.

Now they are trenching for the drain field. The trenching is very deep. Here you can see the line going down along the bocce ball court, which connects the tank to the field, which is located out past the trees.

Here’s the tree I’ve been trying to save. If you zoom in, you can see some large roots have been severed.

 

Here’s one of the workers, carefully maneuvering the smaller of the backhoes between the bocce ball court and some juniper that I cut back, hoping to save. He had originally requested all that juniper be cut down. After I cut out about 1/3 or 1/2 of it out, he has room, but barely.

There’s a lot of disturbed ground out there now, and in the desert it will be years before it looks natural again, which is discouraging. But when you flush, you want it to go down…and stay down!