Posting here took a back seat these last few weeks, as not only were we getting ready for winter and the rains it will bring–which means finishing a number of projects and mapping out some new ones for the spring–but writing about work here was delayed due to me being called in for jury duty. Unlike past experiences where I went in for a day and came home that afternoon after being found unworthy, this time it was quite a slog that lasted a week and a half. In the end though, I was found unsatisfactory for some unknown reason and I was able to return to Purgatory.
I celebrated like any ranch girl would, by moving a few tons of rocks.
Back at the start of the year we had the old concrete pad at the dog kennel demolished and a new pad poured (onto which a generator will eventually go). The remains of the old pad sat in the west pasture ever since and as rains here mean lots of mud, I spent all of one Thursday scooping up rocks in Giggles (the skidsteer) and lifting them into Dumpy McDumpFace. Then I made the drive up to the remains of the spoil pile where I unloaded the rubble and returned to the pasture for another go.
First is a shot of the spoil pile before when most of the asphalt had been sorted, and as it is now with the concrete rubble added in. We will be using some of the bits to finish filling in the drainage ditch at the bottom of the south pasture to help slow the erosion issues.
