Posting here took a back seat these last few weeks, as we were getting ready for winter and the rains it will bring (i.e., finishing a number of projects, mapping out new ones for the spring) and a jury-duty delay. Unlike past experiences where I went in for a day and came home that afternoon after being found unworthy, this time was quite a slog that lasted a week and a half. In the end though, I was found unsatisfactory for some unknown reason and returned to Purgatory. I celebrated like any ranch girl would–by moving a few tons of rocks.
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 since then, and as rains here mean lots of mud, I spent all of a Thursday scooping up rocks in Giggles the Skid Steer and lifting them into Dumpy McDumpFace. Then I drove up to the remains of the spoil pile, unloaded the rubble, and returned to the pasture for another go. First shot below is 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 use some of the bits to finish filling in the drainage ditch at the bottom of the south pasture to help slow the erosion issues.
