Paving Update

[robby]

Creepy, cold and foggy weather until this afternoon. I did a lot of heavy excavation today, and at this point, my body still feels pretty good. I used about half the dirt filling up Pogi's gopher diggings all over the place.

He's really a digging fool, and thankfully, his most recent projects are beyond the fence. He never catches a gopher by digging, but maybe it's just for fun. Halo's smarter, and gave up digging very quickly, and Halo's the dog that actually catches critters.

Next thing on my paving project is to get out a line level, and carefully measure the depth as I excavate, so as to get the proper slope established. All the primers say that the preparation, which I'm doing now, is the most critical step.

Comments

[ccjohn.livejournal.com]

I don't like birds much. The bigger hawks look cool, but the rest just make a racket and carry diseases. That sucks about the almonds.

Blackbird in the talons. Heh. Somehow makes me think of a political metaphor or cartoon.

[robby.livejournal.com]

I tend to like birds, and I think the culprits eating my almonds are yellow-billed magpies, which are very smart birds. I'll try to outsmart them with animatronics and maybe recorded distress calls.