Scared of the dark? It's just you and your mistakes in there.

Check the soil report before you even bid the job next time. Old fill dirt is a clue that someone backfilled a ravine or a gully decades ago, and it never settles the same way twice. We had a site in Tacoma where the plat map showed a creek that was buried in the 1920s, and sure enough we found soft spots right along the old channel. One degree of tilt sounds small but you can feel it in the load lines and it throws off your whole pick radius. Walk it with a probe rod too, not just your eyes, especially after any rain in the last week.

Ugh, green right before her trial sounds like a nightmare. Glad you saved it!