Well it looks like Summer has -finally- arrive, we’ve had a few 90 degree days this week. Not nearly as bad as they got out west, but I don’t do well in 90 deg days and 80+ % humidity. I was planning to start digging out for the front sidewalk this weekend, but put it off this morning and went out to the R/C flying field I joined last week to hang out with some friends I have there instead, and of course in the afternoon it was too hot to start digging holes in dirt so I sat in the air conditioned room a lot of the afternoon. The one advantage though is that the area we’ll be digging is nicely shaded by the trees in the morning, so this project will probably get some work done on it tomorrow morning.
The plan is to lay out the general design of the sidewalk with string or spray paint, remove the existing blue stone that is there and start digging with the shovel and pick axe. It’s going to be a lot of work because the ground as usual is pretty rocky. As an added bonus the driveway used to go in front of the house. When they decided to cover it up they didn’t remove the existing gravel, they just put a thin coat of topsoil on top of it. this is why there is a driveway sized area across the front of the house and lawn where the grass barely grows at all and there are mostly broad leaf weeds, even after trying to kill them in the spring and planting new seed. It looks terrible and will be partially resolved in September once the weather cools back down and I can plant more grass seed.
I’ll post some progress pictures of the work tomorrow afternoon, hopefully there will be some progress. I want to have a concrete sidewalk in soon, particularly while it’s still good concrete weather. It’s impossible to run the snow-blower over the blue stone pieces that are/were there without shreading the lawn. Someone came and picked up some of the blue stone already and I guess the rest will just go into the pile in the back.
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