The excavator came

Steve came and built a dam recently and now he populates the stories that we tell.

We found tracks when we came to the gate. Big tracks treading up the drive.

I followed them over the hill and found huge machines resting outside the Dojo in the fading light of day.

I climbed up onto the excavator. I felt very small standing on its treads. Down below in the tamarind paddock I could see where the machines had been scraping away at the dam they'd come to fix.

seven months since the breaching and finally they'd come to fix it.
big machine that.