Jim spent time this morning working on his drywall driver. He determined it was the plug causing the issue, so he rebuilt a new plug and actually taped it to an extra extension cord. The plug was always coming out of the extension cord so now he won't have to deal with that. Wonderful that he was able to get it fixed - we sure still need it!
Speaking of fixing things, the hopefully-fixed Job Rocker came back in the mail today. So far so good - and good thing, because Jim really missed it!
He did some more fiberglass insulation work in the stairwell...
Then he turned his attention to getting the fascia board on the stairwell. This one gave him a few issues - it was a tight fit and had to be perfect with the front and the existing pieces.
All up in place and fastening...
Caulking the screw holes...
It looks like we're going to be right in the middle of this crazy storm that is supposed to hit New England Sunday and Monday, bringing lots of rain and flooding. That prompted us to continue doing a little more outside work to help prevent as much erosion as possible.
First, we needed more dirt so Jim did some digging...
Then brought the dirt back to the corner.
Grading it out...
Doing some hand shoveling around the house and the drain pipe...
We also filled in the gully left from the last rain with some rocks to try and keep things from eroding too much.
Bringing back more dirt...
Shoveling around the house...
It's amazing to see dirt up to the brick now - we've come a long way back here!
Jim scooping up some gravel from our piles...
And bringing it back to the newly-filled back area.
Hand shoveling of course...
Our next place to work was back in the front of the carriage house. We really want a retaining wall of rocks in this area - it's prime for erosion because of the slope. Jim shoveled gravel next to the house and among the rocks we have at the top of this area.
As well as at the bottom...
Then we went down to our big rock pile and picked out some big rocks to start building up the bottom area more.
The Bobcat helps but Jim did a lot of manual moving of these enormous rocks!
Putting rocks into place...
Jim had to get out the spud bar to help move some of these rocks. He said he had a better appreciation of the Egyptians building the pyramids with no tools!
Getting a good base...
Next we have to fill in this area with more dirt and smaller rocks...
Grading is starting to match the lines of the brick on the house!
At the end of the day, Jim did a little more work in the back, bringing it to grade past the electric line! Again, more rocks here. Our plan is to put rocks against the house back here to help control water coming off the roof.
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