Day 4 It snowed and they came and got the cement cut. Very loud but done in 90 min.
They couldn't finish digging because of the wet dirt.

Day 5 Demo Guy's big dump truck full of cement from our house.

Our new moat! I think it's about 4' deep

AND . . . my 7 foot dirt pile! Okay, you were right. It is A LOT OF DIRT! I shall spend the rest of the summer moving it to the far reaches of my meager 1/2 acre. You want some?