Day 5 More Work On The Farm

I am enjoying having a contributing editor at the farm.  Here is day 5.  Thanks George!

Drainage/Electrical/Moat Project-Day #5

Day #5 was a day of accomplishments.

My backhoe operator (Cory) had returned (early as usual) and work began almost immediately.  This guy doesn't waste time chit-chatting.  He's polite, says good morning and gets to work.  Folks like Cory are hard to come by.

He started digging the last trench for electrical service for our garage as well as one more french drain across our driveway.  With the trenches dug, Cory was off to the next part of this last "infrastructure project ".
   
     The road which goes by our driveway is a private road the residents on Quail Way must improve and maintain themselves.  This road has always been narrow from our driveway down to our Orchard.  Not any more.  Cory went to work removing trees, stumps, rocks and other debris and widened  the road considerably.  Once again, before I could even finish filling in the trenches he dug with gravel and grading/finishing and cleaning up the area around the house site, Cory was finished with Quail Way.

    So, I send him down to the bottom of the orchard where years ago I had removed a number.of trees but never got back to removing the stumps.  Once again, before I could finish up the final clean up around the house site, Cory was finished.  Thank God he was out of fuel thus stopped for the day.  He was working me to death trying to stay caught up to him.

     The were two trees too large for Cory to remove with the backhoe on Quail Way so Tim and I spent the last remaining minutes of daylight cutting them down and hauling the trunks away for splitting later.

     Day #6 will have some clean up items to do before moving on to one of the two last items on the project list........unless I die first trying to keep up with Cory.