NiCad......

 7:37 am - Wednesday - Cinco de Mayo - Seal Rock, OR - 50° F, 76% humidity, wind 7 mph out of the northeast....mostly sunny today with a forecast high of 64° F.  On this date in 2018 we were visiting Niagra Falls.......↴

As it turned out I should have gone ahead and done site #6 on Monday, but I get slightly ahead of myself.  

Tuesday began with heavy cloud cover, which transitioned to partly cloudy, to completely clear by 3 pm.  I started work at my usual 10 am by walking up to the barn to retrieve the Massey-Ferguson loader to spread some more gravel.  As I drove past site #6, which I had skipped Monday thinking a customer was arriving that day, I saw it was still vacant, so decided, on the spur of the moment, to work on it.  Usually it takes me about 3 hours to completely level, and cover a long back in site with the small gravel, so I thought even if someone arrived Tuesday I could get it done before they arrived.

There was already a lot of gravel in site #6, but it was all down the middle forming a large crown.  Instead of immediately hauling more gravel to the site I decided to rake the gravel from the middle to each side.  While that saved a lot of gravel hauling it took me close to an hour to finish the raking part.  Once that was done I began hauling some larger gravel to widen the side nearer to the electrical pedestal, and then finished with the small gravel.  This worked well, and I was just finishing the compaction of the site around 1:45 pm (yup, 4 hours in all) using the loader when a customer arrived pulling a 5th wheel.  I quickly vacated the site allowing him to back into the site...whew, that was close!  I think that's the longest I have spent on one site.

I put away my tools, and began the drive back up Cross Street to the barn.  I don't think I have ever posted an aerial picture of the property here, so here goes.....

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....at least, now, you have some perspective.....Cross Street is quite steep.....probably 11-12% for about 200 yards.

I was home just before TLE headed off for her two hour shift in the office.  I was awaiting a couple of Amazon orders, and one of them, some new NiCad batteries, arrived.  These are the type of batteries used in my solar lights, and I had determined (or, at least I believed) that a couple of those batteries had outlived their usefulness, so I was hoping that replacing them would get two of the strands working again......

.....as it turned out, I was right....the batteries were bad, and now I have functioning solar lights once again.

The clearing skies provided another beautiful Coastal Oregon sunset for our viewing pleasure, and if it had not been so windy at the time we would have been watching it from the 'lido deck'.....

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