Our seventh SOWER project is now in the books. Seems like we just got started and now it’s all done. We really didn’t do a lot today. Looking back on it, we managed to dig a hole about two feet in diameter and about eighteen inches deep.
One of the other guys, an experienced SOWER with over 50 projects completed said that sometimes the work of a SOWER is waiting around for the host to tell them what to do. We did that today. By the time we were told what to do and where to go, it was ten minutes to break time. After break time, we actually started digging the hole by an electrical pole to figure out where the buried conduits went. And then we had to deal with the Texas clay, which was sometimes as hard as concrete and sometimes a completely unworkable goo that was almost worse than concrete. So, by noon we had enough of a hole dug to determine directions, and Josh started trenching with the skid steer so we could lay another conduit.
After lunch, Josh went in search of some trenching shovels to help scoop out lumps of the aforementioned goo that remained in the trench. He was gone a long time and reappeared 15 minutes before our scheduled end-of-project meeting.
So we had a lot of conversation today.
All of the RVICS left just after lunch, so the RV area has a lot of open spaces. The Texas Parks and Wildlife group who was here for most of the week left today also, a steady stream of white pickup trucks leaving as we were digging our hole by the road. So now it’s very quiet around here. Our SOWER group will begin tricking out tomorrow, and we’re hanging around until Saturday morning.
I created a video collage of this project, which can be accessed at this link:
We had our end-of-project meeting this afternoon, wrapping up the last three weeks. Soon we’ll be bidding goodbye to these new friends of ours as we all go our separate ways. Maybe we’ll see one or more of them on future projects.
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