Lot's of Pre-Paving Activity!

Lot's to do to get ready to have the road paved!

There was a bit of a moist spot across the road at the hangar, so that had to be drained. Nothing's easy, is it? The solution is to dig a ditch and put in a French drain to allow the water to drain. It will be covered over and re-seeded so that you don't even know it's there.



Next up is some areas that need concrete. We need a good "transition" from the ramp to the soon-to-be paved drive. This little piece of concrete will square-up the transition to the paving. Form is all ready -




Cement truck arrives on schedule - (the crew is Eric Pugh's Concrete - nice, hardworking folks)


Looks like fun - except it was 90+ degrees!


See how pretty?


Late in the evening - all done!


Those who have been to the house might remember that our parking pad leading into the garage had a few un-sightly cracks....


What time better to fix them than when you have a concrete truck on site!


First, Duane had to remove the old concrete slab. Sounds easy, but it was actually pretty tedious work to get it all removed.


And drug away....


But it was finally finished - and a large amount of dirt removed that was "spongy" (and that's why it cracked in the first place!


All formed and ready for the magic concrete truck!



Yes, very nice!


All done - we'll have to wait a few days before we drive on it.


And last - the sidewalk at the front of the house. We've lived here for 15 yrs - the front sidewalk has always been gravel. Of late, the gravel has been mostly overtaken with grass (as you can see!) and the landscape timbers were warped. So, I'm really happy to be moving on!



Forms in place for the new sidewalk.

Pretty nifty!


Really all done, now! Just waiting on the paving now!