Wednesday, March 30, 2011

A Little Hold Up

Well, construction has been underway for the past few weeks. My mother, Mark, and myself have been spending time perfecting the construction plan, filling and leveling the foundation trench, building tools, and preparing the site for the bag work to begin. Unfortunately, last weekend we ran into a bump. We were having a truckload of crushed limestone delivered just days after a springtime rainy spell. Our recently built driveway was just too soft for the truck to drive on. We were left with huge ruts, a possible crushed culvert (turned out to be only dented in a bit) and no limestone to start filling bags with.

However, all hope was not lost! We had a small pick-up truck already parked at the construction site. Our plan was to go and pickup as much limestone as would fit in the truck bed as to not postpone our construction. Unfortunately.. that truck is now stuck in too soft clay as well!

As expected, there will be several "bumps" or should I say.. "holes" in the path of this project's journey. Until the ground has had time to dry a bit, and we are able to recover our small pick-up truck (planning this next week) bag work is postponed. I, on the other hand, have plenty of wood working and promotion projects to take care of in the mean time! So, keep your fingers crossed and hopefully I'll be seeing you in a few weeks!!