8:00 am - 8:55 am
Moved 5 more wheelbarrows of dirt from beside trench to valley near house.
Yard still fairly wet but managed not to bog the wheelbarrow by only filling it level to the top and taking a slightly different path the 150 m or so each time back and forth.
Break to change as was cold earlier but now warmed up enough to revert from tracksuit pants to shorts!
9:10 am - 10:55 am
Moved 10 more wheelbarrows of dirt from beside trench to valley near house. End in sight.
Break
12:30 pm - 1:50 pm
Moved last 7 wheelbarrows of dirt beside trench to valley near house. Probably half a wheelbarrow left if I levelled off the ground next to the trench a bit better but I may do this once it has rained and softened a bit.
But thats now pretty much all the various spare piles of dirt I have around the block (without creating more .. but if the trench gets made deeper I will hire an excavator and trailer this time)
So this valley now has over 100 wheelbarrows of dirt fill in it. Raised up well out of the slushy swamp (can see the puddle to the right). If the downhill Neighbours yard ever dries out sufficiently for her excavator driver to come back hopefully he will dump more on top so I can get it back to a gradual slope draining to her side.
Break
3:45 pm - 3:55 pm
Backfilled the decimated 'white ant crater' as they are showing zero signs of life or recovery after my poison attack. Dirt still stunk of poison even with the rain.
3:55 pm - 4:15 pm
One last wheelbarrow of decent topsoil from elsewhere by the trench which I used to fill in various small dips and hollows in the grass.
And the biggest positive out of today is I managed all this easily.
Last two weekends of stuggling effort with sniffles seems to have been overcome. If I pace myself I can go all day ... its only when I got flat out that the cardio capacity becomes the limit.
Looking forward to some Bush-O on Sunday.