Digger truck day at Bittersweet Farm
It all started last night with this.
Yes, that is a metal stake in the ground... the newly cut hay field to be specific. There are actually five more of them out there, I just couldn't get them in the picture. They needed to be there because this morning, there was this.
You're going to have to click on the picture to make it larger, and then squint to see it, but back there, in the hay field, you will see a little excavator at work. What is it doing, you ask. Well, the contractor is getting the ground ready for the...
BARN THAT IS GETTING BUILT NEXT MONTH!
Sorry, yes, that's kind of screaming, but it's how excited I am.
In the meantime, my ever alert children notified me that we had another digger truck digging in the front of the house, and the barn wasn't going to be built there.
When I wandered out, I saw that the excavator belongs to the township, and I discovered that they were dredging our stream because of the flooding. This also thrilled me. Not only have we had huge issues with flooding, but the last time I called the township, I was told that because our culvert was more than 22 feet from the center of the street, they were not in charge of it. Every time the drive flooded, I saw dollar signs. But it seems, when the flooding gets bad enough that the water is rising into the street, the township decides that maybe they do have some responsibility for it. They dredged out about 3 feet of silt nearly the whole length of the stream, and will see if that helps. If not, they will add another culvert.
Of course, when you dig, you end up with dirt. Now we have two rather large dirt piles on both sides of the house. This is the one in back. It is going to be leveled off and we will actually end up with more usable ground as a result, because it is going to fill in part of the odd pit we inherited.
Here is the footprint of the barn and dry lot.
In front, I was told they are going to let the very heavy, wet mud dry, and then come back in a week and cart it all away. Which is good because it is not overly attractive at the moment.
But the stream is deeper, so that should help with the flooding issue.
And look! There are culverts in there!
I'll leave you with a bonus puppy picture of Aster, who has grown out of the tiniest harness we have, and is now in the next size.
Yes, that is a metal stake in the ground... the newly cut hay field to be specific. There are actually five more of them out there, I just couldn't get them in the picture. They needed to be there because this morning, there was this.
You're going to have to click on the picture to make it larger, and then squint to see it, but back there, in the hay field, you will see a little excavator at work. What is it doing, you ask. Well, the contractor is getting the ground ready for the...
BARN THAT IS GETTING BUILT NEXT MONTH!
Sorry, yes, that's kind of screaming, but it's how excited I am.
In the meantime, my ever alert children notified me that we had another digger truck digging in the front of the house, and the barn wasn't going to be built there.
When I wandered out, I saw that the excavator belongs to the township, and I discovered that they were dredging our stream because of the flooding. This also thrilled me. Not only have we had huge issues with flooding, but the last time I called the township, I was told that because our culvert was more than 22 feet from the center of the street, they were not in charge of it. Every time the drive flooded, I saw dollar signs. But it seems, when the flooding gets bad enough that the water is rising into the street, the township decides that maybe they do have some responsibility for it. They dredged out about 3 feet of silt nearly the whole length of the stream, and will see if that helps. If not, they will add another culvert.
Of course, when you dig, you end up with dirt. Now we have two rather large dirt piles on both sides of the house. This is the one in back. It is going to be leveled off and we will actually end up with more usable ground as a result, because it is going to fill in part of the odd pit we inherited.
Here is the footprint of the barn and dry lot.
In front, I was told they are going to let the very heavy, wet mud dry, and then come back in a week and cart it all away. Which is good because it is not overly attractive at the moment.
But the stream is deeper, so that should help with the flooding issue.
And look! There are culverts in there!
I'll leave you with a bonus puppy picture of Aster, who has grown out of the tiniest harness we have, and is now in the next size.
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