What Are We Up To?

Not much! Norma has had Beau, her lawn boy, over a few times and is making some headway in cleaning up her flower beds after the neighbor's landslide took everything out over the winter. Her topsoil is gone, replaced by dried mud and rocks from the slope that fell so topsoil will have to be brought in. The lawn suffered a little damage from the trucks that had to cross it to clean up the mess. One large rut across the lawn will have to be filled and grass planted. The rear garden tool shed was taken off it's foundation and destroyed so there is another project. We have a meeting scheduled with the condo committee next door to determine their plans.

Beau and I stretched some deer fence temporarily across an open area to keep the deer out until we can get Brooks here to make an assessment on what can be done to make more permanent repairs, maybe using good sections of the old fence that are still intact or are at least repairable.

Beau dug out the plugged up drainage ditch on the other side of the house and the ankle-deep with water covered lawn slowly dried out. We drilled a few more holes in the drain pipe at the bottom of the ditch and I filled it back up with large rocks that I found in the landslide rubble. It is now working efficiently and should stay working better than it did with the gravel backfill which plugged up with silt every four or five years.

We have been slowly removing "stuff" from the motorhome but that is not a priority because it is parked right beside the house and Norma wants to clean all the cupboards in the house before they get filled.

Aside from that we have not been busting our butts looking for work around here. We are planning on a combined birthdays lawn party sometime this summer so that should be fun. Until then, we will just keep plugging away.