It was embarrassing this morning because I was too weak to take the hydraulic hoses off the soil conditioner so I could put the bucket on the bobcat. I had to get my seventy year old neighbor to take the hoses off. I feel like a child.....a weak child. You can never realize how strong you were until you lose that strength. The good news is that I am getting in and out of my bobcat better than the rental unit I used in Florida.
Had 3.5 yards of concrete delivered as the flood cut dangerous holes in the road bed. We have semis coming onto the islands with rock for roads and I could not have a causeway collapse. The hole just about ate up two cubic yards of concrete. Expensive way to fill a hole, but I cannot take a risk with other people possibly having the causeway collapse. The main causeway I cleared as best I could but these huge maples which the ice shears into the river piled up on the main causeway. I pushed most off, but one requires a chain saw. I cannot chain saw as I am too weak, but I can use an old fashion saw to put a grove in the limb which is projecting over the roadway and hopefully apply downward pressure with the bobcat bucket to break it off and allow a car to pass safely to the other islands.
About five hundred dollars of grass seed from last fall is now somewhere near Memphis as we will have to reseed everything......your expenses in retirement were supposed to go down. I am going to have to hire someone to chainsaw the trees which have piled up on the north side of the main causeway. I got both smaller causeways clear, and pushed a porta potty upright.....that is going to be a treat to clean up as the guy who pumps it does not clean up flood damage, just the usual weekly visit where he keeps it very clean.
The ground was covered with two inches of snow this morning. I melted by three, but quite a difference from the warm weather I was working in Florida.
Had 3.5 yards of concrete delivered as the flood cut dangerous holes in the road bed. We have semis coming onto the islands with rock for roads and I could not have a causeway collapse. The hole just about ate up two cubic yards of concrete. Expensive way to fill a hole, but I cannot take a risk with other people possibly having the causeway collapse. The main causeway I cleared as best I could but these huge maples which the ice shears into the river piled up on the main causeway. I pushed most off, but one requires a chain saw. I cannot chain saw as I am too weak, but I can use an old fashion saw to put a grove in the limb which is projecting over the roadway and hopefully apply downward pressure with the bobcat bucket to break it off and allow a car to pass safely to the other islands.
About five hundred dollars of grass seed from last fall is now somewhere near Memphis as we will have to reseed everything......your expenses in retirement were supposed to go down. I am going to have to hire someone to chainsaw the trees which have piled up on the north side of the main causeway. I got both smaller causeways clear, and pushed a porta potty upright.....that is going to be a treat to clean up as the guy who pumps it does not clean up flood damage, just the usual weekly visit where he keeps it very clean.
The ground was covered with two inches of snow this morning. I melted by three, but quite a difference from the warm weather I was working in Florida.