A week late....

On Friday evening, July 6th, I called Allan Granberg and asked if he could haul two loads of sandy pitrun and dump them at the northwest corner of the garage, he asked
'when', I said anytime, O.K., I'll be there at 7:00 tomorrow morning.... So I called a friend from Prentice to see if he still had his skid-steer loader, yes, can you come down tomorrow, yes....



So, I started inside the garage Saturday morning, working on garage door openers.... one box was missing parts, but I finally got it together and working. Meanwhile, Chris Meyer was busily spreading and grading the fill on the west side and part of the south side.



Two loads was just enough to get a good grade away from the building to prevent wash-out. Here he is, part way through the project.


When he was done with the leveling, I asked if he could cut some sod and topdirt out of the south end of the circle lawn, so as to make the drive wide enough in front of the garage. That's what he's doing here.



Chris suggested that I call to see if Allan could haul another load of pitrun to fill in where he dug out, then he could level that out as long as the skid-steer was there. I called, Allan said "....O.K." By the time Allan got here with the pitrun, we had decided that we should try for the top gravel today, as well...



After Al dumped the pitrun, I asked about the gravel, he said he would be back in an hour, so Chris got busy spreading the pitrun and getting it packed down. He really knows how to operate that thing, and he got done just as Al got back.



So now the gravel is all done, as far as the drive in the vacinity of the garage. We'll need more later on the rest of the driveway and some more around the east side of the garage, but that will have to wait for a while..



In the photo above, you can see the blobs of sod that Chris dug out of the circle drive. He asked if I was going to roto-till it all up, or did I want to save the sod for along the garage? Good idea, Chris, just dump it along the top of the slope, I'll put it out flat later. A few days later, Ivan showed up and we did a patchwork sod laying job. There was enough to get the whole drip area covered and then some. We left it a little way from the slab so we can put some washed rock in there so we don't have to mow or trim next to the building.

Next time I'll tell you about the christening of the new building and a July snowball.....

I gotta go, Carlo