15 October 2019

Tammy and her guys got here at 9; Geryll Robinson (just back from a two-week vacation in Europe) arrived an hour later.  Tammy brought me a copy of the Rutland Herald from Wednesday, 2 October, the front page of which had a nice picture of the stone wall being built, plus a short blurb about who was doing the work (Tammy, Nate, and Jake) from Goshen Mountain Landscaping.  Nate continued building the wall front and back faces; Jake dumped stone rubble into the wall void as needed, then he and Geryll began the arduous task of cleaning the work area of all the “extra” stone; Tammy and I continued putting caps on the wall top.  By early afternoon the wall was complete, including a short extension of the Lapidus’ existing wall (built by Tammy years ago) so that the Lapidus’ and Perkins’ walls meet at the property corner stake.  Then the fun began in earnest!  Tammy used our Kubotas (one at time; she’s good but…) to aggressively grade and groom the area between the stone wall and road in preparation for topsoil and grass seed.  Let’s just say that us grunts (Geryll, Nate, Jake, and I… and grunt we did do) removed many, many tons of stone stirred up in the aftermath of Tammy’s efforts.  Back breaking work!  All that “extra” stone was dumped into a once-hollow just off the driveway.  Tammy, Jake, and I finished the final topsoil spreading at 6:15.  Don’t know about the others, but I’m PDK (translation: pretty darn knackered) tonight.