Day of dig

(the fence adventure continues, once it's done I'll post a complete summary + pictures). Today we finished the post holes. Almost all were drilled by a bobcat (machine). For some reason I had pictured in my mind neat little machine-perfect holes 3 feet deep. The reality is much more cone-shaped (we have a lot of rocks up here) and there is a lot of rocks and dirt that now needs a new home. Why didn't that occur to me sooner? We ended up using cardboard tubes in the holes then filled in dirt around them. These tubes are designed exactly for this and once we were done, thankfully, a lot of the dirt was back in the ground.