42 going to 61 today, much warmer day, lots planned outside.
Neighbors stopped over yesterday while I was working down at the barn and he asked
how the culvert was going. I pointed over to the big black pipe and, and...it was gone!
We all started looking around, who could have taken a 13 foot long piece of big plastic pipe?
Mother Nature of course...two inches of rain, an unsecured pipe sitting in the bottom of the ditch, the plastic
pipe went on a little sea cruise. Down the ditch it went, made the bend at the Y, and wound up all the way back in the woods a hundred feet away jammed into the main water ditch back there. It's actually pretty light for its size and very understandable how in the downpour it just merrily floated downstream.
I had been listening to the Allman Bros and thought I ought to change the tunes name from Traveling Man to Traveling Pipe...
And all good evidence on why culverts need to be secured...
I have the sand, just waiting on ABC either this afternoon or tomorrow morning. I didn't want to set the pipe in the sand because I figured I'd get stuck
with my pants down/stone not delivered and the whole thing would wash away. Which it clearly would have.
Once again, trying to get the ground as dry as possible before
the next big rain comes in. But the new water diversion ditches are doing their job, no big pools of standing water any more.