In the last few weeks, a Bobcat came to take away the mountain of dirt in the driveway.
A few days later, it was back again.
With this now stretching into at last five months, it's become an epic struggle of man versus nature, hence the reference to Warner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo in the original post. I drove by the dirt today, and what was playing on the radio happened to be something entirely appropriate for a Herzog film. So I stopped and made a recording.