State of the homestead address

The arduous task of getting the plumbing set up has begun. My dad and I have spent my last three days off getting basic trenches dug and finding out where the old pipes come in and split off.

In this picture my dad is hitting pay dirt. We found the old cutoff valve for the house about ten minutes after this. Of course he found it somewhere we didn't expect at all, under about 6 inches or soil, where it will obviously be of the greatest use. I wasn't really worth much during this process because on the second day I ended up being sick. Luckily I've since gotten over what I suspect was just a head cold (is there any other kind? Maybe the flu I guess.)

This is the aforementioned buried treasure, (AKA my cutoff valve) this almost made it unnecessary to install a new one. If it hadn't been for the fact that outside faucets weren't affected I would have left it alone altogether. 

The trench that eventually housed brand new pvc pipe.