If you like holes in the ground scoot up to the edge of your seat, buddy, cause I am about to rock your world. If not this will be about as exciting as looking at holes in the ground.


The first step was to cut out the floor and channels for the drains....


Once cut the plumbing contractor had to dig out about two feet of earth along the entire run of the channel....


With the trenches dug I was tempted to launch a mustard gas attack on the invading Germans. That or don a pith helmet and pretend some of the exposed pipes were the ancient remains of a mysterious civilization. What I'm saying is, it was a lot of freaking digging. And I don't mind admitting, I was quite happy not to help with any of it.


Advice for the day: Never get in a fight with a ditch digger. They have insane stamina!


You can see one of the trench drains set up off to the right in the future tank farm area.


For perspective, that's me (6ft) standing in one of the drain channels, which rises up well past my knees.

I've also got a mock-up pic of the snifter glasses we'll be ordering. I plan on doing a custom mold snifter-esque glass of our own design one day, but it's just crazy expensive to start out. So in the meantime these will serve as a companion to the shaker glasses we already ordered: