After weather and broken trencher delays, the electricians got started. I had marked routes for the trenches and had located and dug around the sprinkler system lines to insure they didn't get damaged by the trenching. They started at the outlet they had put in earlier in the flat feeder bed and went south.

I had also moved some of the path stones, so they had a direct route south.

Unlike our previous work, they put this line in PVC to reduce the chance of damage in the future.

I had put a red flag, left by the sprinkler installers, next to a sprinkler head, so the electricians could avoid it while they were trenching.

When we had the original electrical lines installed, I had planned to put a walled area in front of the big trellis and had an outlet installed in the middle of the yard. The wall was never built and I have mowed around the outlet ever since. So, I asked the electricians to move the outlet to the south post of the deck.

I moved my tin ceiling panel, so they could trench west of the "DMH" Shumard Oak and closer to my scrap wood wall.

This section of the trench runs from the east end of the wooden arch wall to the southeast corner of the big trellis and deck.

The trench over to the pond was tricky; it had to cross one sprinkler line and run between another sprinkler line and the pond border. But they got it done without a problem.

Nick inspects the line over to the pond.

Here's a look at a trench where it meets one of the sprinkler lines.

This is the old middle-of-the-yard outlet. Since the power was no longer connected to it, it was dug up and removed, allowing me to mow with one less impediment.

This is where they removed the old outlet that stuck up in the middle of the yard, between the deck and the pond. At one time, I had planned to put a wall along that line, next to the outlet. I didn't do that and the outlet was a nuisance to mow and weed around.

The junction box from which the lines to the backyard were run. This box was placed here after the original breaker box for the whole house was removed from a pole at this location and placed on the side of the house.

The junction point, from the new trellis outlet to the pond (running to the right)

The line running from the trellis outlet to the pond

The trench around the pond, to power the pumps

Nick connected the backyard line to the junction box.

The electricians filled in their trenches and I went behind them, packing and smoothing the dirt more.

The filled-in trench from the trellis outlet to the pond.

The mid-yard outlet was here.

The new trellis outlet

The outlet and deck

This is the turn toward the pump filter shed.

The electricians moved the pond filter outlet off the ground and attached it to the pond house.

The electrical line into the pond house

I added some dirt to the trench around the pond to raise the level to the edge of the pond border rocks and make it easier to mow.

I had temporarily removed my tin panel "gate" to give the electricians more of a straight line to trench from the junction box to the new outlet location. In 2021 or '22, I expanded the width of the middle flower bed, between the wooden arch wall and the moon beds, so that section of the electrical line is now under the flower bed.