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Electricity is in; filling in the holes

The fire pit under the Milky Way is rapidly becoming a central attraction!
 
But before it got dark...
 
We got to the house and confirmed that the power was now running to our permanent meter and panels. We have a single 120V circuit wired for construction; unfortunately, I wired it wrong, and the GFCI kept tripping. :v) After correcting that, we were confident that the new wiring was correct, and we could fill in the service trenches.

We took another trip to Smith Excavating in Ellensburg for sand.


 
We taped up the conduit ends to keep the conduit clean in case we ever need to pull new wire through them. (That already saved our bacon once!) Then we shoveled sand into the pits where the wires emerge from conduit to protect them from rocks.

Next, we filled the holes back in with a rental excavator.
 

There was a big mound of dirt and rocks at the top of the hill left over from the original trench excavation two years ago. It was a snowmobile obstacle. With what was left of the daylight, Eliot pushed it down the hill to fill in another random trench next to the driveway. Now the property is free of random pits and trenches, ready for the snow and the snowmobiles.

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