[HairOfTheDog]

Must be cracked and swollen sinuses rather than infected?

We have come back to skin cracking? Really?

g'nad, you won't would believe the monstrosity that surfaced out in our back forty today. (pics in a minute)... Remind me again what's good about people?

[My back yard]

Remind me again what's good about people?

Nothing. They are pooping, gooing, hocking creatures needing a manicure.

[HairOfTheDog]

ecurbh and I were walking my Dad around the back forty today, showin him the new fence and he was looking for trees to cut for firewood, and ecurbh sees this hole in the ground, looks at first like a rabbit hole till we swept away the dirt.

He says... "Ummm.... there is a big problem here"

Explain this to me. Somebody buried a 55-gallon drum. up-side down. Empty.

Bad things happen to a horse that steps in that. It is hard to tell the depth in the pictures (I should have stood in it) but it is nearly the whole drum deep. You can see both rings in the sides in the next pictures.

(Looking through the hole)

We dug around enough to know that it was going to be a huge job to dig it all the way out with one shovel to our name. So I cut the bottom (top?) out with the sawz-all and we filled it in place.

It is at least safe now.... Will keep an eye out for erosion or packdown where we might need to fill more over it.