A bit late on the update but at least I’m getting to it sometime in the same month!

On June 2nd, the wonderful workers showed up again to deal with our compost pile dilemma. On a farm, things like this are very common here – but apparently none of the people doing the actual work at this company had seen anything like this before so they were yet again bumfuzzled. As you might recall, we had some guys out here a week before and they tried to use water to make the compost heap wet enough so they could vacuum it up. When this didn’t work, they went home, called headquarters and told them someone needed to shovel the crap out (literally).

Hence they arrived again on June 2nd with a trailer in tow and shovels. But this time, they found that because of all the rain we’d had over the weekend, the pile was now very moist and they needed to call the big vacuum truck again to take out the water sitting on top. But guess what? This time, EVERYTHING was ready to be vacuumed out and a couple hours later, they were packing up again and on their way. Needless to say we wanted to beat them all but because Stefan was here in person this time, he managed to keep his cool somehow.

As it turns out, the hole was only about one-half meter deep instead of 1.5 meters like the sellers told us. Of course if we had known that, we probably would have taken matters into our own hands long before this. But whatever, it’s gone now at least!

A bit hard to see in the photos but the hole is indeed empty. There is dirt on the bottom which is hard and compacted – the only way we knew they’d actually reached the bottom.

As you can see, we have a little bit of water in there now from recent rains but it dries out fairly quickly.

Now the question is when can we continue with this project? We actually want to build a hot tub in this space and will either dig out more ground and have the hot tub sitting low…or will use it as is, pour in the concrete base and go from there. A bit of planning and strategy planning to be done but we’ll work it all out. And we may even convert the outhouse toilet to a real one on our sewer system because the pipes to the guest house toilet run just a few feet away and would be no trouble to connect to at all. Now wouldn’t that make things fun?