28 April 2015

As the weather forecast yesterday was that the rainy weather wasn’t supposed to clear until noon today, had planned to spend the morning cooking a sumptuous repast for when the Lapidii return from their current journey.  The weather all morning was gorgeous, of course, while I was inside tending to the bubbling cauldron.  Now is it eye of newt and toe of frog or vice versa?  That done and Delores’ tank topped off with another 13.2 gallons of propane, started fabricating the corner posts for the sauna woodshed.  The radial arm saw seems to have come through the winter just fine.  At lunchtime found that Jimmy Ploof had arrived with his mini-excavator to grade the north side of the house for well drilling purposes.  Had him build a quick 25 foot long by 3 foot high retaining wall, extending the existing wall (that he built last fall) north to tie into a natural ledge feature, thereby leveling off the area around the northwest corner of the house.  James arrived mid-afternoon with their big loader and moved most of the fill from the east end of the driveway around to the north side of the house, which Jimmy then converted into a superhighway for the Spafford’s well drilling rig to use.  Jimmy also dug a spoils pit and built a berm along the north property line so that the crap spoils that come out of the well don’t run down to the Lapidus’ property.