Unfortunately, Saturday was a rainy day but we still managed to get a lot done. Jim and Kyle headed out to the property in the morning and picked up the truck. Then Julia and I met them at the book storage unit. We moved all the boxes of books that were on top of Jim's out feed table so that they could get the top off and the table moved out.
Then we restacked all the boxes of books back into the storage unit.
Carrying the table down the hallway...
Then the table top.
We loaded them into the elevator and then into the back of the truck.
Once we got back to the property, it was time to bring everything in the shop and get it set up.
Jim is so thrilled to have the last of the stored tools into the shop. The out feed table will make things much easier for him.
Since it was a rainy day, Julia and I headed home where we experimented in the kitchen and made pumpkin spice English muffins. Yum! Meanwhile, Jim and Kyle worked in the shop getting the tools that Scott helped Jim bring in yesterday cleaned and reassembled and got everything working and in its rightful place. We got to take their new car for a drive when we went into Saratoga to go to church in the evening. Then it was home for dinner and a movie!
This morning after breakfast, we all headed out to the property. Even though it rained on/off both Thursday and Friday as well as pretty much all day Saturday, there wasn't a muddy spot to be found on the property! The agenda for the day was to start work on getting permanent power into the carriage house.
First, we had to do a little yard clean up. A part broke on the chain saw the last time Kyle & Julia were up, so Jim had to order that part. That enabled Kyle to finish cutting up the tree that we cut down last time. Plus we moved our pile of limbs from that weekend's clean up away from where we would be working. When we have time, we'll get the chipper out and take care of all those branches.
Kyle and Jim loaded up the giant spool of service wire into the Bobcat.
They took it up near the meter pedestal and Julia and I got it covered up to protect it from the elements.
The first task was to unearth the electric line that Jim had going from the meter pedestal to the temporary pole. He had the line in conduit buried about 18". First he used the Bobcat to scrape away the dirt...
Then Kyle would use the pick to find the conduit...
While Julia would pull out the conduit...
Repeating that process over and over...
As we got closer to the meter pedestal, the line was buried deeper. Julia even did some shoveling duties!
Jim used the excavator to dig down deeper to expose the connection to the meter pedestal.
Success! The line is all uncovered!
They moved the line away from the trench and Jim filled in the area and did some grading.
Once that was done, they figured out where the trench would go from the meter pedestal into the house and marked the line with blue paint.
Clearing away some of the piles of dirt near the pedestal so that they can begin trenching.
Starting to trench the line...Jim wants it about 3-1/2' deep.
Continuing to trench...
Kyle took some turns digging!
While they were digging, Julia and I took some stakes and marked off the upper driveway to help the driver place gravel when we get it ordered.
Our line of flagged stakes...
Jim also put stakes and caution tape up to mark the trench for safety.
Kyle's doing some more digging while Jim does some trench work...
Then switching places!
By the end of good daylight and when Kyle and Julia had to head home, they got into the driveway area. Not too much more to go!
Of course, any time we dig in the dirt we find literally tons of giant rocks so Jim did some clean up.
Besides all the help they gave us which we greatly appreciated, we really had a fun weekend with Kyle & Julia here and were so glad that they came up to visit!
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| High 53/Low 39 - wind advisory out so it felt much colder! |
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