2013

This spring the brothers turn 8; Chloe & Annie, 5; Maukie & Flynn, 2

Flynn down Jan 27, Feb 13, March 18, April 24, May 11, May 28, June 13, July 3, July 21, Aug 10, Sept 9, Oct 26, Nov 22, Dec 22

Hawk strike, 4 Jan

Fluff, 12 Jan

New lamp, 26 Jan

New lamp over bed, 26 Jan

Wired this myself, 26 Jan

27 Jan, Flynn down, peaking<

Her Highness, inspecting her subjects

Kitchen window, left

Kitchen window, right

Flynn down Feb 13

11 March: sardine can art

Antique frame from Mom

16 March, Eagle watch

18 March, before going down

GLENS FALLS NY HYDROELECTRIC PLANT ON THE HUDSON MARCH 23

4 April - Flynn dizzy down

4 April - Finished taping the ceiling and gable ends last week

4 April - The cats' view

5 May

May 8 Annie

17 May: Made the raised bed (1x10 hemlock) and started laying out the garden

5 June: 4 posts up, 3 to go

15 July - Begining shed slab/driveway/pond project

Holding up the town truck

There goes the cherry stump

Sculpting

Collecting some sizeable rocks
Driveway cloth in foreground

Holding up the apple root wad and
Nate is going for his chainsaw

The first load of fine gravel. *

*A load of bankrun was already spread at the top of the driveway. He works about 10' in front of the driveway cloth, pulling the gravel toward him, then unrolls another 10' and so on. Apple trunk in foreground. Pile of excavated topsoil in background. That is for me to use as fill.
Besides the apple, Nate tore up a few more trees and I processed all the slash and hauled it to the burn pile in three wagon loads.

Long view up the new driveway

The day is over for this baby.

3/4 stone in place, has to be tamped tomorrow

Nate dug out 5 boulders from Dean & Nancy's yard and they are mine now.

The bank will be built up with more boulders like these--eventually.

No amount of flooding will wash
these boulders away!

Digging out the frog pond.

The slab is done--curing too fast in this heat so Glenn recommended I water it down a few times a day. I have 6 full buckets standing by.

I ordered a Simer 2305 Geyser II 1/4 HP Submersible Utility Pump today. $54.36 from Amazon, free shipping.

I am in need of old carpeting to use as a protective liner under my pond liner. Ed gave me a 6x10 piece--need quite a bit more.

Nate finished with the excavator and drove it off. He came back with the skid steer to finish up. Before he took the excavator away he dug my frog pond, dug out Deans' boulders, broke up a piece of ledge at the corner of my property where I could never mow, tore out the maple stump and dug a hole for the redbud I need to plant on the south side of the house. Lots of stuff happened today.