Monday, 5 August 2019: 1429 North Bay Shore

Let the games begin!

At 7:50 am I heard noises that let me know heavy machinery had arrived at our house and the stones started coming soon after that..  Here we go!  

They were supposed to start at Don and Amy's but it didn't work out that way -- Not a good thing for us unfortunately.  

We watched the work on Don and Amy’s property throughout the day and I sent Don updates periodically.  I was really surprised that he wasn’t at home today to oversee the work but I guess it turned out ok.  

10:30am - second load just delivered

1:45pm -- large stone delivered

2:24 -- that's it for today

 Our project was not quite so compact.  Justin went off the reservation a bit and changed the plan.  Dave was good with it and he promised to "stretch" the stone as much as he could.  We have over 200 feet of shoreline to protect!

Step one was to move the gazebo.  Justin and I had planned to move the gazebo anyway so this was the time to do it, right?  First we move it snug up against the deck to allow the trucks to get down to the water.  Later, when the task is complete, we will move the gazebo a bit farther next to the creek allowing room to get a boat down to the water between the house and the newly placed gazebo.  Good plan, right?

By 10am the gazebo had been moved and we were on to chopping down trees.  Yes, we had to chop down two trees to allow the dump trucks better access.  The closer the rocks could be dumped to the shore, the fewer loads (and less time) it would take to get the stones placed in the water.

Tilt up just enough to roll pipes under.  

Then tilt up from the other side -- then roll.

Very carefully and very slowly!

Distance from deck to gazebo -- about five inches.

These peonies reminded me of the red shoes from The Wizard of Oz.  

They were rolled over and squished as the gazebo was moved.

  Justin chopped down two more trees to allow room for the trucks to get to the water.  

Gemma spent most of the day well out of the way with her tail down.  She didn't lie the noise at all!

 Eighty thousand pounds stone make a lot of noise!

Somewhere in the course of the day, we got the tires on the tractor pumped up, rolled the tractor out of the way, started the EOS and got it out of the garage so we could move the furniture from the gazebo into the garage.  

Meanwhile, the stock market is down, the Texans are in town for joint practice with the Packers and ...  we will see what tomorrow holds.

At 4:00 the bottom fell out and the rain started.  Thankfully it hadn’t rained in the last few days so the heavy trucks and machinery had only torn up the yard a bit.  With the way it was raining this afternoon I can only imagine that tomorrow this time we will be ready for mud wrestling.

Justin is really worried that the stone isn’t large enough to withstand the ravages of the lake waters, ice shoves and time.