Remember the electrical pits we covered up with the excavator a couple weeks ago? First order of business was to uncover the one at the top of the hill. Turns out our ridiculous 36kW water heater will dim the lights less if we pay the power company to install bigger wires from the transformer to the house. So we have to uncover our conduit so they can pull the new wires through. Eliot and I dug down to the existing wires, then along the conduit. Neither conduit had bellends at the end, which seemed wrong. Mabye we lost track of how they'd been installed a couple years ago? Concerned that there was a gap in the conduit a little farther away from the transformer, we dug and dug six feet along the conduits, and didn't find the gap. Eliot had a brilliant idea: if the conduit had a gap filled with dirt, sound wouldn't travel through the pipe. We remembered you could slap the pipes to make cool echo noises. So I went down to the other end, pulled the tape off, dug out the mud t...