21 July 2016
Jim, James, Burt, and
Perry were here all day. To clear room
for Jim’s work, I moved Delores over to Kate’s driveway. She started right up… but does she ever need
a good cleaning!!!! Obviously the sheets
of fabric softener scattered about were less than effective in keeping critters
away last winter / spring. Jim removed
about 6″ of dirt from off the top of the driveway while James continued
smoothing out areas around the house that will become lawn. Burt hauled in sand Ploof’s #2 topsoil
for James and took away (over to the low-lying area at Kate’s that is being
filled in) the material that Jim was excavating from the driveway. Soon after he started, Jim found a rock that
he thought was right on top of the conduit where resides the main power line
that goes from the exterior electric panel to the house. Using the Kubota, I dug that rock out with no
problems. A few yards further up the
driveway, Jim found another rock, which he didn’t think was anywhere near the
power line conduit. Unfortunately, that rock turned out to be right on top of
the PVC pipe. Luckily, damage was
limited to the PVC; the power line itself was unharmed. A couple of wraps of Vycor® and
the conduit was, once again, waterproof.
A few yards even further up the driveway, Jim very carefully
excavated until the conduit carrying power to the RV was uncovered…
undamaged. Excavating the rest of the
driveway was, needless to say, a piece of cake.
Over the course of the day, Jim, James, and Burt moved out to the road
all of the extraneous rocks that were sitting in piles around the property. Those rocks will become (one of these years)
a nice stone wall along our Route 53 property line. Perry and I continued our storage room
multi-hued shelf building marathon.
