Do you live by these cliches? "your time is worth", "you deserve".. etc? I enjoy doing this stuff.. its mindless physical labor. I've spent my life burning out my brain solving industrial problems and challenges so spending time digging a ditch with some good old fashioned manual labor is relaxing.. It also gave me time with my daughter as we dug much of that ditch together.. Good for my body, good for her to learn the value of hard work.
But please feel free to take the lazy expensive approach and give someone else your money. If you find it too taxing to dig a 50 foot ditch then that's on you.. I'm not on a clock, this is my home..
Now I'm looking for a door for the barn.. I don't want one of those wimpy wood doors, I want the kind of man-door they put on industrial buildings.. One that is made of 14 or 16 gauge steel with a steel frame.. Got a quote today for $1600.. WTF?
I would never live in a house without a basement, or one that isn't covered in stone or brick. If I couldn't dig, I would blast a basement if I had to..
No wolf is going to huff and puff and blow my house down.. And if a tornado comes or a radioactive cloud, I want my family to have somewhere to go.