Shaping the plot

Well now that we have the corners more or less pinned, agreed upon and signed, I can connect the dots and make the defining shape of the plot. I began doing this by laying some of the bamboo along the path to the south. At least I laid them where I thought it was supposed to be, between two big trees, on the edge of the path where the small cars use.
Until Mr. O came by and saw what I was doing, and urged me to lay the bamboo more inside the path. "The actual path is further south. People have just been using this flat bit because it is more convenient, but actually half the flat bit where people pass is part of your plot." He said.
So I started invading the current "path" with my line of bamboos in order to define the actual path. Of course doing this made the path look much narrower because the other side of the path (where the actual path is supposed to be) is overgrown and also gradually goes up into a hill... Ah heck, here, let me draw it:

Cross section of the path. My plot to the left (north)

So after I had made the path look narrow by laying all my bamboo at the edge of my plot, I thought to myself that the poor cars who want to pass need to have a chance at least. Therefore, I took a hoe and dug the "dirt gathered from above", and made clear and flat the "actual path". I even measured it to be wider than the convenient path was, at over 2,2 meters.
Here is the result. I am pretty happy with it, and even Mr. O who saw it later said it was well done.

It took a whole morning, but now I have 20 meters of path

Then another day I was flattening the bamboo, cutting branches etc. When I realized right at that spot where I was cutting, there were too many bamboos, and it was big and thick bamboo that was in my way and I had nowhere to put it. So I started hauling it over to the newly defined path, and continued the path all the way to the east corner, where we recently had remeasured with Mr. K
Time to put those extra meters to use I thought and started laying the big bamboos along the corner and the edge,clearly shaping the plot. And then I continued the flattening at the east end.
This is what it looked like after I was done that day.

The east side, seen from south

Yeah, it snowed again.
I have almost 1/3 left to "flatten" and then I can start felling the sugi trees. Here is a picture taken from east side, to compare with the ones before I started felling bamboos...

Mr. K's plot is in the foreground, nice and flat.

Not much else going on... except I met a lady who lives up the hill at the south side. She is a very nice lady with a maki stove, and was looking for wood to burn, so I gave her all the wood I had put to dry in the car-port. Win-win. I showed her my "garden", with the chickens who have now started laying every day again (hooray), and she showed me her big garden with lots of fruit trees but she said the fruit doesn't come out so well. She is not a pro, and doesn't put in any chemicals or natural nutrition in the soil so I guess that is the reason.
She was very sympathetic though. Good to know what people live around the plot.