Replacement trees planted

 I planted all three of the trees I bought this morning. This one is a river birch and it is the one closest to the driveway.

 Here is the red oak in the center of the yard. These trees are to replace the maples in the background. They are rotting from the inside and won't have a long lifespan, so we got some different ones.

 This one is another plum tree. We're hoping it will help pollinate the "self pollinating" tree behind it, as it really doesn't self pollinate and we would like get fruit from them.

I got the new grill assembled this afternoon. Our old one was getting very wobbly from getting blown over too many times.

More walkway work

 The flood washed out part of the walkway, but left a path for Heather to use. At least I don't have to build it all over again.

I started filling it in again this morning. I took a couple extra buckets with me because I knew it would need them. After I dumped them all in, it was mostly back up, but looks like it will need another load.

Barn walkway UNDONE

 We had some minor flooding from the storms last night. That flooding re-arranged some of the walkway.

 The inlet of the pipe got plugged with some debris and the backup went over the walkway. I cleared it out today, but the damage was already done.

All of the fill Heather put down over the weekend is gone and replaced with part of the walkway. There is still a useable path, so the damage will be easier to fix than a total washout.

Barn walkway done

 Over the last couple of days, I put another 1000 lbs or so on the barn walkway. It seems to be at grade now, a nice level walk over to the walk gate.

 There was a lot of "hole" to fill in, and I cut all the wild roses away from the fence here.

There is still a bit of pipe on the other side of the fence that Heather and I will need to get covered, but that will require dirt or compost materials.

Walkway almost done

 The crossing is starting to look good. There is still a small dip to the left of the shadow that will need a bit more.

 It took about two more tons of dust with a few slightly larger chunks mixed in  to get it this close.

 Considering I started with about an 18" washout, it is looking pretty good.

Heidi and Tessa were watching me the whole time. I think they wanted to help.

Working on projects

 I started filling in some muddy spots and leveled up the steps for the shed. Some of the extra made a slightly higher walkway. All the gravel I put down last year had sunk into the mud.

 I dug out the bottom of the drainage and put the pipe in. This is where Heather crosses when she goes to the barn.

 It is sealed and I'm trying to bring it up to grade. I've put almost a thousand pounds of rock dust around the pipe so far. It still needs a bunch more, but the crossing is WAY better than it was before.

Heidi wanted to help. So did Tessa, but she was behind the brush on the other side.

Catching up

 As you might guess, the first couple pictures are from Christmas. I seem to recall the batteries in my camera dying as I took the second shot.

 Allen doesn't look like this anymore. He cut his hair off and shaved. He also left today for ANOTHER week in France for his job.

 Today was very warm and I took advantage of that to wax the truck. It shined up pretty well, even with the old wax I had.

It had been in the shed and repeatedly frozen. It separated and changed consistency from that. It didn't go on very well and didn't wipe off and shine right, either. Took a lot more work to get it to buff up to a glossy finish.