Working Off the Pie!

We had a lovely Thanksgiving but ate too much. So we are atoning for it by lots of physical labor. Friday we finally got the prep work done and started the actual rip rapping. Carrying rocks and placing them on a slope is not as easy as it sounds and we all 3 came home, took showers and crashed. Saturday our son went home (the smart one!), & Dave supervised a full day of grading. We had 3 workers and several pieces of equipment going all day. One long section of rip rap is done, drainpipe is buried, and the slopes are compacted. Maybe 4 more hours of grading are left. Meanwhile I washed the tile floors and the inside of most of the windows. Mainly trying to cut the dust and find out where all the stickers are I have to get off. When the wind picked up and started blowing all the loose dirt around I knew my efforts were not going to be very successful. The list of things to finish before the final is currently two pages long so we will continue to be very busy. As the photos show, our tile man was also busy. He finished the entire backsplash today and cut the travertine in prep for the next thing he has to do.