Once again, we returned to the backyard to pull invasives. I am pleased to announce that we are almost done for the year. Perhaps an hour or two more and then we will have pulled everything we can until more sprout next spring.

Here is a view, looking North, of the backyard post invasive removal. There is only one buckthorn remaining (can you find it?). It was too big and inconveniently placed to remove so we just girdled it and it should die in a year or two.

As far as construction goes, there is steady progress on deck framing and on duct work for the heating system. The most visible changes were in the trench where they are putting conduits between the road (telephone pole), garage and basement. Here are some pictures showing the progress. First looking at the front of the garage, then from the side.

And here is the current conduit ends in the basement.

I can not read all of the labels on the conduits, but here are the ones I can read:

  • spare
  • alarm to garage
  • spare to street
  • spare to garage
  • fiber to street
  • cable to street
  • cat 6 to garage
  • switch to garage
  • power to garage
  • water meter

I was hoping to have a good construction video showing the conduit work, but the electricians are camera shy as you can tell by the end of the video (I have another day and a half of that same view).

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