For the first time I can remember, there is no water in our creek. Even the deep hole that I can’t wade across with my hip waders on is dry. At the upper end of the creek there are still two pools with water in them but below that is nothing. The sky looks like this may be the day we get some rain.
They packed the stone (or pug mix as they called) it on Monday and Tuesday and yesterday they paved all of the parking pads and the driveway all the way to the new road. It took them forever to get the irregularly shaped parking pads paved. It didn’t go very fast where they were putting new asphalt over the old driveway either, but when they hit the new part of the driveway where they had done the prep work it just flew.
They put down some tar of something before paving over the old part to sort of glue the new to the old and Buster ran right through it before I knew that it was even down. They told me to keep him inside or on a leash to keep him from burning his feet, but this was before they started so I just let him run. The net of this is that he has a couple of tar spots on his shoulder where he must have scratched or something and there is some tar on the kitchen floor. They told me that baby oil will soften it up so it can be cleaned up. I haven’t tried that yet. I’m just going to let him shed the tar off of his shoulder. At the rate he has been shedding, it shouldn’t be but a day or two.
As I was working this morning, I started hearing these faint beeps and upon investigating found that the Invisible Fence box was the source. What happened was that the road grader had cut the wire out at the Y (where the stone sign is). I told the operator about the water line which goes across the gravel driveway not too far from there and he said that nobody had told him anything about that. Fortunately, the water line is 18†to two feet deep so there isn’t much danger of him hitting that.
Meanwhile, Buster is residing in the laundry room (and as much of the kitchen as he can get away with) until they finish grading.
The earth moving contractor is apparantly finished because the paving contractor is putting down gravel and grading and packing it. They were here Wed or Thursday powerwashing our current driveway where they are going to refinish. There was a slight rain on Thursday afternoon which stopped them. They said that they would finish with the gravel on Monday and start the paving of our driveway on Tue and then on Wed and Thur they would pave the new road.
Sorry this post has nothing about Rob’s dog, Buster.