Road work.....

 7:56 am - Tuesday - December 2nd - TWW - 28° F, humidity 36%, wind 5 mph out of the east by southeast.....mostly sunny today with a forecast high of 53° F.  On this date in 2024 TLE and I were enjoying a sunset at TWW....

....we've been remiss in doing that this year.

We were expecting Charles and Phyllis to arrive between 2 and 3 pm Monday, and with lots of sun, and no wind was the perfect day to get a lot of small things accomplished.  First up we needed to unload the firewood from the Yamaha Rhino we had cut the previous day.  With all the wood we cut the previous two days we were able to fill the wood box on the deck, and the box inside the house.

Once that was done I headed over to the Ford diesel tractor to get it started, and warmed up so we could do some road work on the connecting road to the house.  You will recall that there is a 75 foot section that has a low spot, which collects water when we get a lot of rain.  It was all torn up from people driving through it after the week long rain event.  My plan was to use the gannon to drag dirt from both sides of the low spot to raise up the low spot, then smooth it out with the bucket, and rakes, and finally drive back and forth over it to pack it down....

.....TLE took a couple of short videos while I was compacting the dirt.  In all it took less than an hour to get it looking good again, but we still need to put more dirt in that low spot.

When Charles and Phyllis were here before Thanksgiving they brought a load of firring strips, and 2 x 4's to be used to finish off the greenhouse, but due to all of the mud they drove through the wood got quite muddy, so TLE and I pulled them out of the CONEX, and placed them on the painting tables (I wrote about that yesterday).  Before we can paint them we needed to remove the mud, which was now quite dry.  The only thing that worked was using a wire brush to remove the mud, and it worked quite well.  After all of the boards were clean I used compressed air to blow all of the residual dirt off them, and the tables so we can paint them Tuesday.

Additionally, we finally moved the wood pallets, upon which the wood had been delivered, over to our 'pallet' area, rolled up all of the long garden hoses which had been in use over the past few weeks, moved some more wood we had cut a couple of weeks ago in another part of the property into the wood box, lit the wood stove in the house so the house would be warm when Charles and Phyllis arrived, moved more wood over to the cutting/splitting area near the Eco Worthy dual axis solar tracker to be cut and split at a later date, moved the saw horses over to that same area to get the wood off the ground, making it easier to cut, moved the portable fire pit over to the 'sunset deck' (FINALLY!), and checked the fluids in the tractor adding some hydraulic fluid for the first time since last winter.

I was just adding more wood to the wood stove when Charles and Phyliss arrived around 2:30 pm, and with that we were done for the day.  We had dinner around 4:30 pm which featured scrambled eggs with salsa, and hash browns smothered with leftover Thanksgiving gravy....YUM....

.....we love sharing dinner with Charles and Phyllis, and, as always, the conversation was wide ranging.  With that another TWW day came to and end.  

Thanks for stopping by!