The place we retrenched the water main to is under slab.

There's about a six-foot-wide section between that slab and another slab. Then it hits another slab, which is outdoors. Then it goes under a giant Sequoia. Then it goes under the driveway. Then it's at the street.

Or maybe it just goes straight down!

So in preparation for my exploration - trying to find a buried water pipe in the 24" of space underneath a bathroom - I decided to appease the ghosts as much as possible. I finished emptying the service pit. It's marvelous. It's between five and five and a half feet deep, 31 inches wide and thirteen feet long. It's even got a drain. And I reinterred Bandit out under the chainsaw sculpture. I planted some hyacinths and dwarf daffodils with him. Not gonna lie I got choked up. I hope he's happy there.

And then I got out my mattock and started in. The trench is about 3 feet wide right now, and should have caught that pipe. But then it's only eighteen inches deep.

Which means this shit isn't going to be easy, dwarf daffodils or no.