Wednesday - May 17, 2006
The company that was supposed to do the well-drilling and the septic were called away to an emergency down the road. They will be here next week to do the work we had planned today. Since Pa had some free time away from my property he decided to work on his own land. The bulldozer cleared several stumps off his property and the resulting holes filled with water from the rain. Pa has to drain the water and backfill the hole.
In other news, Echo and Flint spent most of the morning and afternoon barking and huffing at something under the ramp steps to the house. They can't get under that part of the porch due to the fact we blocked it off. I thought they were fussing about Tiger, Mom's cat. However, we finally looked with a flashlight and it was a small box turtle!
This is the hole filled with water. Pa used his box blade to cut a trench to drain the hole.
Uh oh! While pushing dirt, Pa miscalculated and got the tractor stuck in the mud.
So...Pa hooked up a chain to the truck to drag it out. This required two people, one to drive the tractor and one to drive the truck. Its been years since I've driven a 4-wheel drive or a stick shift. The first tug seemed to yank the truck back and I stomped on the brake too soon. However, the second tug was successful. I applied way too much gas at first, but managed to find my "wheels" and pull the tractor out.
A final tug up the hill and Pa was back in business.
Scraping dirt off the hill...
And pushing the dirt into the hole...
The tractor is at a steep angle and when Pa drives up out of the hole after pushing the dirt into it, the front wheels tend to leave the ground a little! Wheeeeeee!
Rather than watching Pa shove dirt around Echo is alerting to Mom's cat, Tiger, who is out in the woods behind the hole.
Flint settles down after strenuously watching Pa and the tractor shoving dirt around. Flint would've helped, but he figured that every dog...er, human...has bury their own bones!
The company that was supposed to do the well-drilling and the septic were called away to an emergency down the road. They will be here next week to do the work we had planned today. Since Pa had some free time away from my property he decided to work on his own land. The bulldozer cleared several stumps off his property and the resulting holes filled with water from the rain. Pa has to drain the water and backfill the hole.
In other news, Echo and Flint spent most of the morning and afternoon barking and huffing at something under the ramp steps to the house. They can't get under that part of the porch due to the fact we blocked it off. I thought they were fussing about Tiger, Mom's cat. However, we finally looked with a flashlight and it was a small box turtle!
This is the hole filled with water. Pa used his box blade to cut a trench to drain the hole.
Uh oh! While pushing dirt, Pa miscalculated and got the tractor stuck in the mud.
So...Pa hooked up a chain to the truck to drag it out. This required two people, one to drive the tractor and one to drive the truck. Its been years since I've driven a 4-wheel drive or a stick shift. The first tug seemed to yank the truck back and I stomped on the brake too soon. However, the second tug was successful. I applied way too much gas at first, but managed to find my "wheels" and pull the tractor out.
A final tug up the hill and Pa was back in business.
Scraping dirt off the hill...
And pushing the dirt into the hole...
The tractor is at a steep angle and when Pa drives up out of the hole after pushing the dirt into it, the front wheels tend to leave the ground a little! Wheeeeeee!
Rather than watching Pa shove dirt around Echo is alerting to Mom's cat, Tiger, who is out in the woods behind the hole.
Flint settles down after strenuously watching Pa and the tractor shoving dirt around. Flint would've helped, but he figured that every dog...er, human...has bury their own bones!
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