Yard is starting to 'square up' but, gonna need another re-juggle in places
.... got more crap that needs tucking at the back, rather than dumping in front of other things ...
or I'll be forever moving stuff.
the bags of stone are for a 9" face on the retaining wall, down the side of the driveway, which I'm hoping is going to get started on soon, hence my enthusiasm to have it all accessible
Boss had me busy half the day, yesterday . ... filling a bit of a gully between our old driveway and the neighbour's wall ... where we rebuilt/re-erected that fence a while ago.
It's a bitch to keep tidy and mow/keep the grass/weeds at bay, so the level needed to come up to a 'mowable' flat surface.
Dumpy bag, full of gash stone and another of 20 mm to dust and it's looking better (and flatter). Knackered a lot of my day though, but kept her happy.
He (the neighbour) has been busy replacing the stock proof fence between our lawn and his field....
Originalets URL: http://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans/WP_20180325_19_35_37_Pro_zpsyaaw1y0n.jpg .. not my problem,
I'm happy to say, least it wasn't, 'til I got earache teatime!!
We'd already had 'words' about his proposed replacement .... all post and rails, instead of
like for like ... std. pig/stock wire and top rail ....
he's done a bit of post and multi rail in his garden
.... looks bloody hideous and SWMBO was not having that !!
Anyway, he'd already taken the piss a bit, by raising the height of it, but it looked OK-
ish .... then I came in tea time to see he'd gone and double railed a section, instead of banging in a strand of wire to compensate for his increase in height ....
'Fraid there are going to be more 'words' in the a.m. !!!!!!
If I get earache, he's gonna share it
..... and lose his extra rail !!!
Can't understand the guy, after all I do for him, he's
got to take the piss.
Short memory .... I was out with him, in all that first lot of snow, just after crimbo, lashing together a temporary water supply, for him and t'other neighbour, (
who's as good as gold and always grateful, whenever I get him/them out the shit) .... spent hours, loads of MDPE fittings and a new roll of 32mm pipe, cut up to suit the problem in hand ..... i.e. frozen, exposed/uninsulated joints in his system .... we'd had the same temp.s too and no issues!!!!!!!!
Anyway .... we shall sort it in this morning. ...
we've had
THREE dry days !!
Me ramp was the driest it's been in months and I wanted to get on it to reach the remaining bags of stone, etc., that I couldn't reach from me planings level.
Originalets URL: http://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/my%20bucket%202/WP_20180326_16_01_32_Pro_zpspgxczjpa.jpgWith that bundle of stakes off the top of everything, I could get at the remaining dumpies and very carefully extract 'em from their resting places
Originalets URL: http://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/my%20bucket%202/WP_20180326_16_20_46_Pro_zpsatj87aw2.jpgmanaged to lift a few in one piece (that I rebagged a while back) onto pallets and got the rest down onto the lower level, without them spewing their guts, 'fore they got there ....
Originalets URL: http://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/my%20bucket%202/WP_20180326_18_01_22_Pro_zpshinb3ybw.jpgI might manage to get one or two onto pallets, if I am
REALLY carefully, but one let go for sure just as it touched down !!
More pallets required first though .....
Got as much 'other crud' down as I could, before a late tea, at nigh on seven in the evening .. 'Boss' could see I was busy and making progress, so didn't hinder it with a food break .. timed it just right.
I'd got 99% done, I was going to achieve ; it had just started to rain, as I came off the ramp........and I was starving !!
Situation normal again here last night - - pissing down !!!!!!
Clara day and treatment evening, today; forecast was wet!! ....... it bloody well is too
Much the same on the weather front Wednesday too, if they're to be believed !!!!