All Outside Stuff

Hooray - no more stacking wood! I got the last of it stacked yesterday, including all the small stuff (less than 2" in diameter) which now resides in a bin outside the lean-to that WS made specifically for that purpose. The huge stuff (logs that didn't get split or are too long) has been re-stacked just outside the lean-to also. It's a good thing that all that stuff is outside the lean-to as it is almost bursting thru the seams!

I've also relocated all the deck furniture to other areas; some under the deck and some on the pallet with the logs outside the lean-to. I haven't figured out what to do with the patio furniture yet. Normally that, too, would go under the deck but there is still a huge mound of dirt taking up most of the space (from WS digging the drainage area out from the wall). WS had hauled away a lot of the dirt, but there is still a massive pile and now it is a frozen solid massive pile. We had 2" of rain between Tuesday and Wednesday, then a crash of the temps down to the teens - there is definitely no moving the pile of dirt until next year.

The sudden temp change shortly after the rain has not helped us as the road from about 10 feet above the upper driveway and down past the lower driveway is a solid sheet of ice (from side-to-side also). The ground was doing its part in holding the water until the big freeze - now the water is pushing up thru the cracks in the road (yes, the very road that was just redone 3 years ago and will not see any more work for another 17 years unless someone very rich dies and wills a couple of billion dollars to the town and earmarks it for road work).

The water is still pushing up from below, so the ice slick is steadily enlarging itself. The road gets no sun, and the temps have stayed below 30 (oh, they keep promising us highs in the 40's, but that hasn't happened up here on the ridgeline), so we seem to be stuck with needing 4WD just to get up the road for a while. And to add insult to injury, our section is the only part of the road to exhibit this problem.

Just our luck.

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[Cop Car]

Ah! But the rest of your luck is in being surrounded by a beautiful area--in your natural habitat. It's just a trade-off! (Besides...you thrive on adversity, don't you?)