A Long Due Update . . .

Kelly and I have been scrambling these past two months to just keep ahead of the game of life.  As such, nothing major is being worked on.  But we do have a couple of on-going projects that need to be updated!!

The first one is the back 40 (LOL - really only a 1/4 of an acre).  Slowly but surely, we have weed-eated and mowed so that the yard went from this ~

To this!!

Also, our little path from the parking area to the Cottage where Martha, my long arm, resides continues in earnest.

There were so many rocks in the soil that Kelly is having to shovel out the dirt and sift it to get the rocks out.  A long and tedious project!!

The dirt that has been sifted is beautiful and will find a home in other projects!!

The other continuing project, that is now complete, is a the grey water system Kelly is putting in for our new washing machine!!

First he dug a trench that is 12 inches deep, 10 inches wide and 24 feet 9 inches long (Kelly knew exactly!!) from the house out to the barrel that will collect the drained water.

Then he perforated the drain pipe and laid it for the drain ~

He then connected it to the pipe in the house that sits behind the washer ~ As you can see, there was a large concrete step and slab of concrete right where he needed to run the pipe, so he had to work around the concrete.

Next, he had to dig a hole that was about 28" in diameter and 2 feet deep to put the drain barrel and rocks.

This is the blue barrel that went into the hole.

Kelly cut it down to a bit shorter than the 2 feet, perforated the barrel with drain holes, put a layer of large rocks into the hole that were in the pathway in the front yard and ~

Then lowered the barrel into the hole and filled it with the remaining large rocks!!

Then around the outside of the barrel he used a lot of the smaller rocks from other projects to fill in the hole.

A friend of our's, who is a metal fabricator, made a steel lid with handles to cover the entire hole ~

Kel put the lid on the bin and covered it with dirt.

He also covered the entire trench with the sifted dirt from the pathway in the front yard ~

And now we just need to pack the dirt down by watering the area and compacting the dirt and then reseed it with grass!!

And this is the reason Kelly labored so hard for weeks on the grey water system!! TA! DA!

I wanted a washer and dryer that would be large enough to hold large quilts and the one guy that delivered them and set them up said that he had been a delivery guy for 20 years and had NEVER seen a washer and dryer this big!!  It is soooooooo nice not to have to go to the laundromat!!

I'll try to post more often!!