good morning all. Could have sworn I posted last night but can't find it this morning. Maybe this is really CRS...
Anyway, start of a slight warming trend, 29 going to 49 today.
Two, maybe three loads of stone coming in today.
And boy did I get an education on stone pricing. Sand, $110 a load delivered. Dirt cheap, pun intended...
Sand pits all over the local area.
ABC $400 a load, heavy gravel $500 a load for 16 tons. Oh I should have had sand delivered first...sigh, well, live and learn.
It would have packed down fine and I would have saved 400 bucks instead of that first load of larger stone. Actually they call the sand
"field dirt" which I found an interesting term. Like what else did you expect to find in your field?....and the funny thing it's not dirt, but at least 90% sand.
Who cares, it's cheap and it packs and I can go over it finally with whatever I want. The line between topsoil and "field dirt" is pretty slim here...the dirt that gets delivered isn't very dark for sure. Though now I have an enormous pile of topsoil left over so not like I'm buying that again, and my topsoil is real dirt, well as real as the sandy soil can get here.
It's very strange coming from an area where there were three granite stone quarries within 20 miles of my home, and now I proverbially can't buy a rock...well, not cheaply for sure. All the stone has to get hauled in from at least an hour West of here. However, no complaints; every time I sink a shovel into the ground and it doesn't stop with a clang, I smile...
I didn't do well yesterday at the oral surgeon. He took one look at my tooth, shook his head a bit, and said "there's no way I can dull all of this" and then the conversation drifted to anesthesia and thankfully they also offered Twilight/propafol which is a marvelous product (used properly..........) and wouldn't I like to be knocked out while they cut my gums, pulled pieces of teeth out, etc? Oh yeah, yes, yes yes sign me up. Which they did, going back next Monday.
300 dollars to knock me out, and when one wakes up, one remembers absolutely nothing of the operation. Until the meds wear off...
Had a nice chat with the trucker dispatch yesterday and the same driver is coming, and this time he sure knows to not stop at the little bridge, where he buried the truck the last time but to keep on moving. I'm going to have a huge mess to clean up when he's done but at least get the sand over to the barn and not 500 feet away in the field. if today goes well, I might have them bring another load of sand tomorrow, if only for a storage pile. Because then the rains return....Once the little bridge is removed, I have to either build a small bridge over the water diversion ditch or put a culvert in it. The latter would probably be a lot simpler but a small decorative wood bridge would be nice. Maybe I should get some plans from our master bridge builder TxDon.
marvelous to hear from our newlywed. Congrats David!
And Sodamo, nice mowers, the flail is a really good deal though I bet the shipping on 1000 pounds to Hawaii might
take more than a postage stamp...I would love a flail, particularly one on an arm, to cut my ditches.
I hope you take some action shots when you get it.
buppies, thanks for asking.
