15 November 2016

Tyler Maynard from Lincoln Applied Geology (the technician who redesigned our septic and potable water systems in April 2015) came by for several hours.  Together we did a complete survey of the “as built” property, which will show future generations where all the property lines, buildings, other structures, and underground utilities are located.

14 November 2016

Jim and James returned, bringing a third and final load of gravel to finish the driveway verge.  Used the Kubota to move that load around (the Yanmar having been taken to another job).  After that area was leveled, smoothed, and compacted, moved Delores back to her usual parking spot and then wrapped her snuggly in her favorite blue tarp for the winter.

12 November 2016

Jim and James Ploof arrived first thing this Saturday morning to place  a verge of ¾″ crusher run gravel all along the driveway, this reinforcing the asphalt edges to prevent them from deteriorating. They used their Yanmar mini-excavator to scoop gravel out of the truck and place it where needed.  Then James compacted the gravel with their big vibrating roller.  I had told Jim that one 14 cubic yard dump-truck load should be enough for the job.  He (wisely) got two loads from the Carrara stockpile.  Unfortunately, three loads were needed… and Carrara’s is not open on the weekends this time of year (deer season).

8 November 2016

Dennis Senesac came by to investigate why, when we turn on the thermostat that supposedly controls radiant floor heating in the study, laundry, and master bathroom, the floor heat for the master bedroom, shop, shop lavatory, and storage room also comes on.  The problem seems to have been that, because we’ve never turned on the radiant floor heat anywhere other than the study, the valves controlling flow in those other lines had never seated closed, allowing “ghost flow” to happen.