Mighty Mouse Tasks Makes for One Tired Puppy

OK, I've got Wednesday & Thursday off, which means I've got 7 days in a row off. WooHoo ! Time to attack house projects ! The weather being accommodating I decided it was time to clean up my driveway & get the gravel driveway extension under way. So Monday I cleaned up the back half of the driveway and then got the landscaping timber cut to size as well as laid out metal sheets from the shed-that-was-in-my-yard-when-I-moved-here where the stones would go. Tuesday I nailed the timbers together with pole barn nails and pounded in short metal stakes to hold them in place. Then I started moving the gravel from the pile in the front half of my driveway to the area between the timber and the end of the driveway. Each wheelbarrel load gets 8 shovelfuls of rock and I'm doing 6 to 9 loads of rock a day. This much Mighty Mouse work means I'm one tired puppy at night !

Anyway, here's a photo of the work as of Thursday. The area is just under half filled with stone. I'm currently putting stone under the porch & then will move on down & away from the house. Once this area is done I'm putting stone down next to the house between the driveway and the house. Uffda !

It has been raining on & off all week so I've been working inside too. The kitchen has been straightened up, all the laundry done and I cleaned out the hall dishes closet. I took all the various plastic storage containers, oddments of microwave ware and general miscellany out & then sorted & washed it all. No more lidless containers, containerless lids or strange kitchenware here any more ! That freed up one whole shelf. Said shelf now has cleaning supplies on it, which means the folding table in the kitchen is 1/3 cleared off. Progress is being made.

Meanwhile I've also engaged in hawk throwing, magazine reading, music practice and hummingbird watching plus spent a half day with the horses. I love fall ! And its barely started !