Billie, have fun out there and be safe. Make sure you don't look like a deer, you big buck you....
rain is out of here too, headed North up to Roy and others.
ok, picture time. I give these guys an A, but not an A+.
Though after I have them back to tidy a few things up, and a one yard wide dip that holds water,
their mark will improve. I definitely got my full two inches of material
I'm going to send a few of these pics to the boss and I think my edges will be nice and neat when they finish.
About the only highlight of the whole thing was when a hired truck driver backed the asphalt truck too fast into the paver, driving it back down into the soft material it just laid, and those huge paver tires started to spin. Lots of unhappy people....They had to get it out and then hand shovel the whole area and do it over. Otherwise the base material was coming up into the pavement, not good of course. I was watching the operator when the guy whacked him, his head rocked back and forth, and then side to side because he knew the consequences apparently.
Overall a really nice group of guys though I wish they did not have one more job to go to on a Friday afternoon or they might have spent a little more time neatening the job site. I've definitely got some landscaping to do. Paver sidewalk going into front door has to be raised several inches for about ten feet; it had dropped below its original grade. The concrete apron sure hadn't, so that we had to grade to, not the bricks. I can fix the bricks...
The job out at the end of the driveway was excellent. Looks like a continuation of the main road just heading in the driveway; nice and smooth. And they put plenty of pitch into the driveway to the right going in, to get the water off into the main ditch. Here a ditch, there a ditch, everywhere a ditch ditch.... sorry.
I went exploring a little yesterday morning before the pavers showed up, out the rear entrance behind the barn, over a fairly new little wooden bridge, which I shoveled six inches of pine straw off. Need to let that wood dry out. So over the little bridge I went with the UTV, lopping off branches as I went, making a nice path. And then out into the farmer's field nearby. It was the very corner of his property, right along the ditch line that goes totally through my property, sort of cutting it in half; the little wood bridge going over it.
The ditch behind the barn might be two or three feet deep. But oh boy out in that farmer's field it was all covered with growth, but when I looked down in, when I stopped the UTV wheels about a foot away, the depth was over six feet. Whoa. Glad I didn't back into that.
I carefully went forward and reminded myself to stay way away from that area. They wouldn't have found me until the Spring, or....
Turns out one of my neighbors is a professional ditcher, and he must have done this field not too long ago despite the growth. You put a tractor wheel in that ditch and it's all over. Yet another way for farmers to get hurt.
it will be nice to get the cars off the lawn today and get the grass mowed once things dries out. Am going to walk the lawn carefully before I mow; last time I mowed I almost hit a small thermostat control box the roofer had tossed off the roof when replacing my attic ventilators. That would have made some noise....
have a nice weekend everyone.
