Surveying

Honestly this didn't take very long because my back yard isn't very big and I knew kind of what I wanted, but I will show you here anyway. Here is the view from my back door. Obviously this is not the place to dig a pit as it is full of dogs and tables and chairs and crocuses and things and also it is where people walk and it would be a great pity if my WISE project resulted in any broken necks or other limbs. 

So here instead is what you might call the side yard. It is much less well-kept, not that the back yard is at all well kept, but you take my point. See the two trees, one immediately adjacent to the right corner of the dog pen and the other partially obscuring the fence and white propane tank? The pit is going between them.

See also, below, that there is a path which dogs and gardening family members traverse, which I have been forbidden to make a mess of? Strain your eyes and also see that I have set up a few rocks in approximately the most optimal spot. It just looks like a gray blob, left center of the photo, right of the path. That's where the pit will be dug. My father avows that there are no fuel lines or electric lines or pipes or anything there. The biggest concern, for the diggers, is tree roots. I've tried to place it away from the visible ones at least. We may need to adjust by a few inches, but there, as I say, is the general area in which we are digging the pit.