Day 66 April 21

A little hodge podge day today. Actually that seems to be how most of the days are lately. After hitting up early church we came home and jumped right on laying the compound. David figured the floor would be done in two stages, considering the entire space we are working on is a heavy trafficked area, and it’s has both of our areas of access in or out. So for the first stage we’re focusing on the mudroom, kitchen and dinette. By the time we were done, we used up three bags, leaving three more for the rest. The process went rather smoothly, afterward leaving us to wait for it to dry.

I then got ready to leave for a baby shower while David geared up to work outside with the tractor. The rest of my day was consumed with the baby shower and running errands. I picked up the sink, as well as some items for David after he ran into a crappy situation with the tractor. He was leveling out an area of the yard with the bucket when he started leaking oil. He diagnosed the issue as a hole in the pipe line which needed to be addressed immediately. He was able to drain all the oil, as well as the transmission fluid, while I picked up some steal pond stuff and more diesel oil, a more difficult task than you would think. I came home to a tore up yard and broken tractor. Actually the spot he tore up looked really nice, I’m just anxious to plant grass there now. Takes me back to last year at this time when grass was tore up everywhere while we tried to lay electrical to the garage :o)

Since the tractor was out of commission, David went to work on the riding lawn mower which offered him no greater comfort. That failed to turn over due to a dead battery, at least a simpler fix than the tractor. Once I came home with the goods, David started working on repairing the pipe on the tractor. He did what he could and closed out the night with the bond drying on the pipe line, him covered in goop, and the tractor lying lifeless in the yard. It’s hard to say if this was a successful weekend or not. I think we can compromise and call it a semi-success.