16 October 2019
About 9:30, while I was busy picking another two
full bucket-loads of rocks out of the area between the new stone wall and Lake
Dunmore Road, Tammy and Geryll stopped by.
After discussing next steps, the two ladies left again, returning an
hour later with 12 bales of hay. They
then left again, purportedly to go into Middlebury to acquire a hydro seeder (a
device that sprays water, grass seed, and hay onto an area to be planted). That trip, I thought, should have taken them
an hour or so. At 1:30 Nate showed up to
take away Tammy’s Kubota, saying that he had just talked to his boss, who was
in Middlebury, and should be back here “any minute now”. At 2:00 Jake arrived, bringing with him a small
broadcast seeder. Finally, at 2:30 Tammy
and Geryll returned, bearing a 25 pound bag of grass seed, a hay mulcher /
sprayer (not a hydro seeder) from Taylor Rental, a half yard of topsoil,
and a tale of woe involving two flat tires on Tammy’s dump trailer. In the next hour we spread the topsoil (could
have used a full yard, easily), spread the grass seed, and mulched Tammy and
the seeded area with hay.
