First thing in the morning raked over Kate & Dan’s driveway, filling in the grove left by dragging one of the stumps there yesterday. Then tackled the much more serious furrows in the Triangle Square Circle driveway. Spent the remainder of the morning doing errands between Salisbury and Middlebury. After lunch, began moving rocks and dirt and more rocks for the top section of the walkway. I can attest that swinging a pickax into Leicester soil for a few minutes gives you a terrific workout. After shoveling and picking rocks all afternoon, Chree is doing Naproxen with a Beefeaters chaser tonight. Unfortunately, the area where the natural slope is most out of sync with the desired 1:8 walkway slope is at the very beginning of the walkway. We managed to excavate the first, worst 12 feet in four hours of very heavy labor. Afterwards Chree took a cold shower (saying something about the sight of my well muscled sweaty body…) and the dogs and I hit the lake.
