These photos show where I cut the area next to the concrete garage pad. You can see where I gently sloped the dirt away, hoping that will be enough to channel the water run off. As usual, I ran into quite a few spots of decomposed granite which is (at this time of year) harder than heck. I had Loretta soak the hardest parts and attacked them with the scarifiers on my trusty boxblade. That worked enough where the rippers got down deep enough and I could tear the chunks of DG out. After going in several directions doing that, I had rendered that area to rubble. Then I used the
FEL bucket and boxblade to move the DG over to the house foundation and also to the front porch/steps. That will all need to be built up for proper water drainage and also for the concrete landing to be about 6" above the dirt. There is a lot of dirt and DG to cut and move before I get that done.
In the background you can see where we have some of the implements and the tractors.
Now that we will be staying up there for 5 days and only 2 days down South, I should be able to get a lot of this work done. I still have to put my machine shop together, but I figure I can do that in between after Loretta gets some of the stuff out of the barn and settled into the house. That will free up space in the barn too. She gets to pick where most of the house stuff goes, so all I'll be doing is moving the boxes for her. God forbid I accidentally use one of HER cabinets for storing one of my guns or something, hahaha.
Later that evening I snapped these photos as we were relaxing on the rear deck. It was great to cool off inside during the hot day and get a cold drink out of the new fridge for a change! But even better was to relax in the evening watching all the stars and having a cool breeze to keep us company.
