19 September 2019

The Goshen Mountain Landscaping crew arrived about 8:30.  Tammy and Jake worked until lunch putting the front walkway back together… even more beautifully arranged than the original.  Now that the slate is resting on a proper compacted stone and stone dust base and sloped to drain back towards the driveway, we expect it to last much longer than the first attempt.  While that was being accomplished, Nate and I continued work on the stone wall along the road south of the driveway.  After lunch, Tammy, Jake, and I finished that section.  In four days of effort, we have completed 95 feet of wall, or about 28% of what needs to be constructed.  Doing the math, building the entire wall will take about 14 work days.  The bad news: both Tammy and I are convinced that there isn’t enough stone for what is planned in what I thought were our vast stockpiles.