This morning Isabel learned how to play “Leap frog”. Ha! Ha! :o)
Month: July 2008
Post hole marking and digging
So the next project work day, Gino went out and measured out where 23 fence posts were going to be located along the property line. After that; the following day he rented a post hole auger to drill the holes. Which worked out rather well since he ended up only having to dig 4 by hand because the auger hit BIG rocks.
Ok so this is a little odd one…Gino was marking the ground with this marking paint and was showing me how to use it to paint some stakes that he needed. Well, he paints this word on the ground and neither one of us says the word. So we go about our business; Gino measuring for the stakes and I marking the stakes with paint. Well, Isabel is out walking around playing in the dirt and what not. When she walks over to this word painted on the ground and reads it! “Hi” she says. I was blown away! Smart kid.
This is a view of the back of our property. Our posts will be located were the orange stakes are.
Today Gino rented a post hole auger to drill his holes for the posts.
Each hole was between 20 and 24 inches deep depending on how big the rocks were.
Dirt moving
Our next project that we tackled was moving 12 cubic yards of top soil from one side of the house to the other. We took about 5 days to move it with our little wheelbarrow. Gino did most of the moving and I tried to help when I wasn’t keeping Isabel entertained.
Some of the top soil we had moved over before Gino had started the paver pathway however that had gotten very compacted from the truck with the many loads of gravel/sand and paver’s. Nevertheless, we broke it up and moved the soil over by the pathway and then began moving the remainder of the top soil from the other side of the house.
Clearing more of the larger rocks before bringing in loads of the top soil.
Taking those larger rock loads over to the empty lots.
Our little helper.
This is where the top soil was located on the other side of the house.
All the top soil is moved! Hurray!
The morning these photos were taken, we had a summer thunderstorm (hence the small lake of water) with thunder and lightning during the night. Which was very cool because we don’t get lightning all that much.
By the way, the tarp is covering leftover sand from the paver pathway project; which Gino will use to complete the pathway around the house to the patio.
Now it’s time for the fence…