This morning, he went to the insurance company and put insurance back on the box truck. In NY, you can turn in your license plates if you suspend your insurance (for cars that aren't driven in winter, for example) - then you can get new plates when you get insurance again. Plus, it's hard to believe, but it's been 2 years since Jim got license plates for his work 4Runner - he did that when we were still living in Ohio but starting our transition to NY. So he went to the DMV to get all that taken care of.
Once he got back to the land, he did quite a few things done....like trying to use the leaf blower to clean out all the tree droppings that have fallen in there over the last months. But although it didn't end up raining, it was pretty windy today and blew more around than it cleaned out!
Jim spent some time working on the risers for the septic tank. Unfortunately, he had to chip away some of the cement from the casting to make them fit but he got them on. He wants to do a little more tweaking but they look good.
He put together this pressure gauge and connected it to the manifold. He put air in the lines and the pressure held steady - so no leaks thankfully! He'll have to watch this carefully during the concrete pour to make sure they don't accidentally damage one of the Pex tubes.
We drove the box truck to see if we could get it inspected (you have to do that yearly). This was the first time Jim had driven it since he replaced the power steering over the winter. He said it worked great - it was so good to get some of those things done in the cold months so that they are ready when we need them now! Unfortunately, the guy was busy and couldn't inspect it right then so Jim has an appointment for early in the morning.
After we got back from that, we went back to backfilling. We decided to do a little bit on the front of the carriage house.
We stopped at this point because Jim wants to figure out exactly how he wants to do the grading for now in this area.
So we moved around to the side and continued working there. At the end of the day, we got quite a bit more done!
The view of the front from on top...
Kind of a red letter day - we got to take down all the caution tape that we had put up when we first started digging for the carriage house space over a year and a half ago! There's no more big holes and it was getting in the way.
Jim went to the barn at the end of the day - he knew he had some jack posts there but wasn't sure how accessible or easy they would be to find. He ended up finding them along with a tiny box of the necessary hardware for them - if you saw the barn, you'd know what a feat this was! He will probably use this posts for some more shoring.
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