7 May 2014

Jimmy and Wink Rhodes (Ploof Excavating’s driver, loader operator, and man about town) started work at 0730.  Wink spent the morning hauling loader bucket after loader bucket of “extra” gravel from the house site to fill in the dip in our driveway.  The driveway now has a nice even, and much more benign, pitch for the first 200 feet.  Jimmy continued digging his way towards China.  Tammy, Nate, and Mary came at 0830 to recommence work on the sauna building site retaining wall.  The four of us had the wall complete, the sauna’s French drain installed, and the Kubota safely returned to its garage by 3:30.  Jimmy finally quit for the day at 6:30.  Black flies were pretty miserable in the afternoon.