A passing 'grade'.....

 08:29 am - Wednesday - The Eve of a New Year - TWW - 34° F, humidity 32%, wind 6 mph out of the east.....partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 57° F, and rain later this afternoon.  The view this morning.....

.....and on this date in 2012 TLE and I experience one of the most amazing, captivating, beautiful sunsets we have every seen to this day.....

.....at the Tiki Bar at Low Key Hideaway in Cedar Key, FL....the water was so glassy it perfectly reflected the sunset.  We were about 10 months into our first year as nomads.

On Monday TLE and I began hauling rock out to the low spot in the entry driveway....two Yamaha Rhino utility beds full, to be exact, so Tuesday we fired up the Ford diesel 420 loader to scoop up a few loads of lava rock which is about 50 feet from the driver side of our Newell.  I noticed this pile of small lava rock last year and figured it would come in handy in the future, and Tuesday was the day.  I managed to haul two more bucket loads of the lava rock out to the same site, and then the hard work began....spreading it out, and then compacting it with the Ford diesel 420....

.....we wanted to get this rock spread out and compacted while the dirt was still soft from the recent rains, and it worked out better than we expected.  We'll be hauling some more rock after the next rain  (12/31/25 and 01/01/2026) passes through the area in the area in the foreground of the picture above.  We'll know soon enough if this new effort at firming up, and raising the elevation of the south side of the driveway in this area works.  At this point we are cautiously optimistic.

As has been the case for the past few days it was breezy, and oh so cold, but we are slowly getting acclimated to working in colder conditions just as we did last year.  It would be easier to just sit inside where it's warm, but then we would never get anything done.

We finished with the grading project a little after 12 pm, and took a break.  After putting the tools away we had been using I spent time topping off the Jeep battery, and then taking it for a 15 minute drive, before putting it away again.  By the time I finished it was after 2 pm, and getting cold fast as is most often the case this time of year.  

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