72 on the way up to 88 today, relatively cool day but as Buppies said, this weekend the kids will be running through the sprinklers for sure.
speaking of sprinklers....my older lady friend who I loaned a new Cub Cadet riding mower to emailed me saying the mower needed a service.
Well, that might be an understatement.
She did not take my caution about always walking unknown lawns first for IEDs. She goes next door to do her neighbors yard on a nice day and runs right over a brass sprinkler and the section of hose. At a minimum I've got blades to sharpen, hope the spindles weren't bent. So I'm headed over there today with truck and trailer this morning to bring "Bumblebee" back for service. Hopefully the hose won't be wrapped up underneath...sigh.
This is a lawn mower I know she dusts off after every use, takes very good care of, and she is surely more upset about this than I am. It was due for a blade sharpen anyway since her rear lawn, and her neighhbors, are sandy, next to the River, and the sand dust sucked up dulls things pretty quickly.
So I reassured her (with no facts to back it up...) that all would be fine. And it probably will be. Not an expensive mower so spindle can't be that expensive and not hard to replace. He said with cautious optimism...
Driveway was repaired and seal coated yesterday. They didn't apply, or simply could not apply, enough product the first time to seal the cracked edges properly.
They knew the edges were the issue from the beginning. I think they ran out of product, and for some unknown reason, they get it from Raleigh, over two hours away.
Sealmaster seal coat, hard to believe it's not available closer. ??But at 7:30am this morning they are returning with several more gallons and will reapply to all my partially filled cracked edges. I should be able to drive on the center today but will caution my workers with their big pickups to try not to spin their steering wheel while stopped on the pavement. That does wonders to new asphalt...
I need Buppies for an inspector!
I did not go with the basic stuff, paid a couple hundred bucks extra to get Sealmaster's higher grade coating with more additives. Looks just the same; driveway of course is much blacker now but that will fade. They say this should last three to five years. Maybe. Driveway was two years old and had concrete truck damage to about fifty feet of edges, and basic falling apart in other edges area. Driveway was beautifully done, except they blew it on the edges, they really did. So now I'm fixing them in places, they used concrete saws it looked like to cut whole areas out and patched those areas with another Sealmaster product. The problem is after one coat of seal coat on top, the patched areas are way too obvious. Needs another coat, and I held out 300 bucks from their check and said when that final and needed per contract coat went on, I'd be very happy to pay them the final amount. I had houseguests yesterday when they came and was not here when they applied the product, a sprayer it appears from the overspray into my lawn,not too bad but still a mess, granted the centipede grass was for sure trying to get onto the road.
Between the barn electric and the driveway, my project budget is closed. That's enough for this year.
