While the rest of
the world is tripping through their gardens admiring their azaleas and cutting
branches from their forsythia, we’re occupied with much less aesthetic
activities.
Our driveway is
juuust narrow enough that when we emerge from our car we often step into a La
Brea tar pit of mud. This past weekend we decided to rectify that.
First, we had to
pry up the stop-gap measures we put in several years ago which, although they
weren’t much help as bridge across the mud, did manage to become firmly
cemented into the ground.
Then, LOTS of
digging through soil so riddled with rocks they triggered shock waves through your
arms when you plunged in your shovel.
This was followed
by five bags of small stones. And we thought we were done, but we still had a
two inch drop from the edge of the driveway. It seems we were a bit too
enthusiastic with our digging.
So - - back to
Home Despot for more and bigger stone, and five bags later, we realized - - we
still need five more.
Perhaps we could
blame it on the project’s supervisor.
Sorry, but that eagle eye says Had they only listened to me......last year! Love that fellow.
ReplyDeleteThat post made me tired. Beautiful kitty pic.
ReplyDeleteI think I've been involved in a project or two that had a very faulty estimate.
ReplyDeleteThat's the kind of project you're glad to be done with! I love your black black kitty cat!
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a lot of work! Your cat looks like a panther in that picture love it!!! I tried to follow you but for some reason blogger is not letting me. I will keep trying. Thanks for coming to visit. :)
ReplyDeleteThose cats can sure be demanding bosses. We have hardpan here and with the shade in our backyard, the grass has quit growing. It doesn't even exist any more so we have talked about putting in adobe brick pavers. I think it would be about as hard as the work you've done here. Makes me rethink this idea.
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