5.30.2014

The forecast was for rain today but it was one of those on/off sunny/cloudy/rainy days so work had to be done between raindrops.

Jim spent awhile organizing the back of the truck so that he had room to pick up the Bobcat auger.  The shed is really helping by letting him get things off the truck and into the shed.

He spent more time grading and bringing dirt up to fill in around the transformer this morning too.  Before lunch, he spread grass seed on all the rest of this area and raked it in, while I picked up any rocks that came up to the surface during all that.  Then he drives over the area with the Bobcat to get the seed into the ground.

He got all that done in time because after lunch, it started raining a little.  I went on home...this is the area with all the ducks - they hang out in this person's yard so they must be feeding them.  Today I finally got to get a picture of these snowy white ducks - we aren't used to seeing them in Ohio much.

The weather continued to go from thundery to sunny - Jim ended up going down to the barn to pick up his ladder and some other things he needs.  We were hoping to get the auger today but Bobcat said they would charge 2 days if we picked it up on Friday, so we will get it next week some time instead.

Late afternoon update:  Well, we just finished with a short but powerful thunderstorm, complete with crazy torrential downpours, hail and wind.  It's over now but the last few days of work planting grass seed was probably all for naught - it's undoubtedly all washed away.  Jim said that there was some major erosion damage happening on the street - he was driving when this was happening - so we'll have to wait and see.  But pretty depressing when everything looked so pristine.

UGH!!!  The storm didn't last long and as soon as the clouds left, Jim went to the land to assess the damage.  Not good at all.  All the beautifully-graded topsoil washed away (taking all our grass seed with it) and left behind rutted, rocky dirt.

This is behind the turn around that Jim worked a long time on getting it nicely graded.

The skies are now bright blue without a cloud in sight but the quick sudden storm certainly took its toll.  This not only took away all the work over the last few days, it went way backward and now all that damage will have to be repaired before the grass seed can be spread again.