As promised, here is what we were greeted with upon our arrival home – a driveway!
Yippeeeee!
And, after a few more days of letting it “cure”, we could actually drive on it:
Here comes the car, backing into the garage for the first time. September 5, 2015
Home sweet home! This is the first time we have had a garage here in over 10 years, and the first time this car has ever been in OUR garage.
All of that is a big deal, if you like to take care of your cars, and we do. No more bird poop, tree sap, tree branches. . .
On to sticks and stones. A lot more is happening outside than inside at this point in time. Living where we do, we know it won’t be much longer until we are shoveling that white stuff (can’t bring myself to say that four letter word yet), so we know it’s time to get things done outside. First, we had to take care of some storm damage. We had a tree break off about half way up and get stuck in another tree, all of which was hanging over our storage shed; don’t want to let that go for too long. We knew it was too tricky for us to deal with, so we had the pros come in. And they left us with a nice pile of sticks,
Nice sticks
and, a couple of piles of not-so-nice sticks:
not-so-nice
BIG not-so-nice
Not sure if the not-so-nice piles will be taken care of before the daffodils bloom. . . You just have to let some things go.
On to the stones. We also have had several piles of stone around the house lately. Boulders, river rocks, crushed limestone, pavers, and sand. All sizes of stones, actually. Here are some pictures to give you an idea of things to come:
A load of boulders
a pile of boulders
slabs of stone
stones-in-waiting
This is how the river rocks got from the street to the lake side of the house; very labor intensive
and all of these stones came down by wheelbarrow
This is what 15 tons of pavers looks like
Paver Mover. Thank goodness we have friends that let us borrow their toys
And I’ll leave you with one last picture of the work in progress, a glimpse of what is yet to come. . .
Cabin to Craftsman 