Hopefully these don't rotate this time!
This is about half of the dirt, after we put 80% of the gravel under the shed, and the rest across the street:
I really want to know why this JPEG is 200 KB and almost 300% larger than the previous one, which is higher resolution:
That is the gravel the guys from Church shoveled, transported, and dumped for our neighbors across the street. The only time that I talked to the woman was when she asked for free stuff. She said that she wanted all of the dirt, but she didn't know how much her husband wanted to shovel.
It sounded like he would be shoveling tons, it was just a matter of whether it was free dirt now or expensive dirt later.
I told her that whatever was left after 24 hours I would give away, but I was exhausted the next day, and struggling to get anything done.
A wheelbarrow's worth of this stuff would be $10 at Home Depot. Tonight I hauled 5 of those out back just to get it off of the sidewalk, and it would take 10-20 trips to get the rest of it.
The only time that I have talked to the husband across the street he complained that we didn't ask where he wanted all of that free rock.
It sounds like his wife should have asked him.
He also asked for dirt and I told him that he could have as much as he wanted, but that was in the afternoon, I really didn't like having a big pile of dirt in the driveway, blocking my Camry and the sidewalk for 3 whole days, and I really didn't want to do this for a fourth, so I dumped two more loads on Mom's garden, spread one load on the worse parts of the lawn, and spread two loads over the branches and pine needles in our compost pile.
The first thing in the morning I am going to offer the remainder on Facebook.
This is the shed up on gravel:
I didn't want the junk in the picture, but I liked the photograph with glare from the sun even worse.
I leveled the gravel front and back, but not side-to-side yet. I cut a pressure-treated 2x4 to mend one side of the broken 4x4 on the left, but I couldn't line them up right, nor could I improve it much with my clamps. Whenever I have the time I am going to get some long screws, washers, and nuts, and use my mending braces and wrenches to clamp all of the boards together, then tighten the screws, and do another section.
Squeezing between the gravel and the shed several times to screw the boards together wasn't the best part.
I pre-drilled the 2x4 and started the screws, so that made the rest easier. I marked the second board. Once I have everything straight I will jack up the front and back just enough and screw that second board on the other side of the 4x4.
Unfortunately, some of the joists are in bad shape, as is the 2x4 on the left side. I should really rip out that, remove the nails, and attach a new board.
That won't be nearly as bad as replacing the joists!
I don't think that I can sister them with 1x4s (which I already have) when they rotted away.
I forgot to get the rest of the water bottles out of the freezer and really wanted cold water the next day!
This is Mom's raised garden now:
My girlfriend helped me trim Dad's old currant bush. The branches hung out a couple of feet over the garden and you definitely could not walk between them!
