Burying the Electric Line for the Hot Tub

This weekend George, Sally and Mitzi Mae buried the electric line for our hot tub which doesn't work yet because it needs a new getcher motorunnin' thingy! 


I didn't help because, after all, I had to lug the camera outside to take these pictures. Everybody who is anybody knows that in order to take pics, I had to remove the lens cap, turn it on, focus, and then most grueling of all, push the button down not once, not twice, but three times!

Sally, George and Mitzi Mae

Once George laid the line in the ditch, we were on George's Soak-Tamp-Fill-Soak-Tamp-Fill Plan for returning the dirt to the trench. This plan involves laying a soaker hose in the ditch to wet it down a little bit. Once wet, the hose is removed and tamping is done in the trench to pack the dirt down. After that, dirt is added back to the trench and the process is repeated several times.


George thought that his Plan would compact the dirt and eliminate having a little hill that eventually sinks to a gully but somehow things ran awry at the first soak stage.
In no time at all, the trench filled up with water as you can see.


Note to folks who go on the Soak-Tamp-Fill-Soak-Tamp-Fill Plan--Stay outside in the soak stage. Do not go in the house.

We waited for a few hours to see if the water would soak in but it didn't. We think that this is somehow linked to the floods in the Midwest but we are not sure. Anyway, George returned the dirt into the water-filled trench, and it all worked out quite well except for the line of mud outside the back door which is almost dry now (two days later).