Piddly Stuff

We haven't been able to get our next project gong on the buildings. We had one rent house come open where the dog had chewed all the wood in the house; he even chewed a hole from the inside to the outside. Now we have had an extreme hoarder house open up. This one was totally disgusting. Our business takes precedent over our building process. Have to get these houses repaired and rented out. We can get piddly stuff done at home and that is it.

There has been something that has bothered the dickens out of us ever since we bought this place. There was a bunch of concrete at the start of the driveway. It was right along the road; we saw it every time we came home or we left. This is what it looked like even after Bill took one load of concrete away. The Previous Owner just dropped concrete wherever he wanted. A horrible eyesore and it was stopping the water from  going where it needed to go. This was pushing all the water towards the road; which made it run along the front edge of our drive and had eroded the asphalt away.



















There were some very large chunks of concrete. We still have the cousin in laws tractor that picked the concrete up for us. I drove the tractor and Bill pushed on the concrete to get it into the bucket. We are quite the team. Love the power you have when you have a tractor on the road, even a little one. Everyone stops and lets you do what you need to do. Then they drive by waving and smiling at the old lady driving the tractor. Our neighbors are probably just as happy as we are to get rid of this stuff.

 After each load of concrete was in the back of the pick up we would go down the road 5 miles to an asphalt plant. They let you drop off concrete and they crush it for use as road bed base. Free product to them and a place for concrete to go. You are on your own to offload your truck so we had to get creative on pushing the chunks off. We needed to protect our tail gate and our backs.

 Those really big chunks in the  pile are not ours. Ours are the little guys in the front. We did two more loads this size.

 Three truckloads were hauled away and then we raked and raked and raked. Now we have a nice smooth ditch. Easy mowing, water goes where it should, and looks very nice.

 No more lumps of concrete!!!!!!!!