Rain Stay Away One More Day

We would really like to get our driveway finished before the fall rains come. We moved a little bit of  the driveway material around ourselves when the garage was being built so the building material trucks would have a surface to drive on but most of the drive and parking area is just red dirt.

 At our rock yard we load lots of product with a skidsteer but to shave and slope a drive with it; so that sheds water correctly is not our area of expertise. Luckily, with our business we know people who do this all day long and are really good at this kind of thing.

Yesterday Bill brought in two truck loads of the driveway material, we already had one load there waiting. Of course the weather forecast is saying rain for the next four days straight so all this needs to happen quickly.

Here are the piles of Hybrid Granite Screenings we are using for the drive. It is Granite Screenings with a man made sand mixed in with it so it sets up really really firm. They use this as a base in making the asphalt used for roads. It's just prettier than black asphalt and it costs less.

 We had two very special little girls helping us get things ready for the dirt guy to come in the morning. Mallory would stand on the roadway cloth and I would cut the cloth to fit together. She had a very important job . You have to be sure the cloth overlaps in the right direction so the rain water flows over the downhill piece not under or that will cause erosion.

Some of us had to take more breaks than the rest of us. Just because it was dinner time and they weren't being fed. I had given them a hearty snack of grapes and bananas before we started but their little tummies were saying, "Feed Me"!

Everywhere the fabric overlapped we laid down the drive material. Some of the edges were already being held down with the Oklahoma Red Rock that will line the whole drive and  there were also spikes used to keep everything in place. There was a strong chance of storms coming in and we didn't want this road fabric blowing away before morning.

 

These Grandkids of ours are going to go into adulthood with a vast array of knowledge that most adults never achieve. We are so fortunate that they just jump right in and help even when they are only 3 years old.

Even the future Son in Law got into the action. So excited in nine days he becomes one of us!!!!!

This is huge! 

We have the drive and then lots of extra parking and we have to have room for the propane  and trash trucks to come in and back out without getting on the lawn. The drive continues to the right along the back of the West Wing to the garage. We are leaving the original drive to the front of the buildings for people who may not be able to walk distances. And it give the grandkids a big concrete area to play on.

We will have 4 inches of the Granite Screenings over the road way material. This will be dampened and driven over and over and over to pack it well. If all the grading is right; we won't have standing water and all the water will flow down the side of the existing drive and out to the street. We haven't had any standing water yet so it should all work well.