I take some small comfort...

It is a matter of dealing with piles. And not piles of anything; just "piles."

As in "long things that are embedded in the ground to support buildings and such." And in particular, one kind of pile, but I get ahead of myself...

As I have come to understand it, a буронабивная свая is:

• an in-situ pile (according to Multitran, which also gives bored pile and drilled pile as alternatives),
• a bored pile, according to the title of a paper I'm using as a reference,
• a situ-cast pile, according to another paper title,
• a bored situ-cast pile, according to yet another paper title,
• a pile cast in a hole predrilled in soil, according to yet another paper title (which is more a description of what happens than of what this blessed animal is called.

Moi, I tend to like bored situ-cast pile, as it tends to capture the essence of the thing (drill a hole, pour cement in it).

Strangely, however, as the other variations appear in the titles of papers being cited in this article I'm translating, I am pretty much forced to use said renderings.

No biggie. With any luck, I shall finish this journal today and take a load off my mind.

Cheers...

Confirmation...

I am sitting here, trying to get to a point where there will be less than 1,000 words left for me to translate tomorrow morning, when it occurred to me that I was hearing the distant howling of canines, not unlike what I used to hear in Colorado.

I was not the only creature in the house to register a response. Shiloh uttered some kind of vocalization that was not quite a bark, but she heard some kind of message.

Where in the heck do such kinds of canines come together in this part of the world, which has been so incredibly developed, I wonder.

That wondered, I am at 939 words left to go. I shall work until the next section heading, and then hit the rack.

Cheers...