5.25.2015

Happy Memorial Day!  Hopefully everyone said a prayer of thanks to all the service men and women.  My personal heroes...Jim (Air Force), my dad (Air Force) and Jim's dad (Merchant Marines).

 

Jim headed to the barn this morning - he had a few things to pick up, including concrete sealer.  He also picked up some square bar he had there and did some tweaking to one of the towers.

After lunch, we got busy on more backfilling and grading.  Jim wanted to expand the side of the sewer pipe trench to give more room for him to put the insulation down. 

Then he put a layer of sand down over the pipe.

Then the insulation....

...and more sand on top of that.

Then he extended the electric conduit out more so we could do some backfilling.  Here he's gluing the pipes together...

And more sand!

Then backfill, picking out all the rocks of course.

Then he was able to get around the back and work on a little bit of grading.

Wow!  Looks good!  We've used up all our dirt piles around this area so this is going to be good for awhile until we create some more dirt.

Since we were in the mode and were already dirty, we decided to do some more backfilling around the side of the carriage house.  We are very careful to keep any rocks away from the dimple board.

This area is looking great too - we expanded it quite a bit today and got rid of a huge dirt pile!

 

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