Thursday and Friday the crew finished with my retaining wall and leveling out the back fill behind the wall, so this last week-end I cleaned up the front yard. I took down all the temporary fencing (I had already moved the leopards to a different yard on the back of the property), ran the strimmer (string trimmer), raked it all up and started demo'ing the wood fence. Today the crew is building the north curb for the center median. This was very interesting to watch. There's a big cement truck, the kind with the rotating drum on the back, and he's towing some sort of gizmo that says "curb builder" on the side. As the cement slides down the tube it goes through the curb builder which spits it out as a fully developed and shaped curb. . . no forms or anything. Then there are several guys following along with trowels smoothing and inspecting. Next comes paving this side of the street. I'm going to send the City Engineer an email asking about my fence and pond. I'm thinking that now they're finished with the retaining wall I'm going to be put on the back burner while the rest of the road construction gets worked on.
In the first two pictures I'm standing at the west end of my property. I had to take two pictures to get the whole thing in. The first picture I'm pointing the camera to the street, then the second I've pointed the camera to my driveway. I'm at the west end of the desert tortoise yard. The Texas tortoises will have a strip along the driveway. There will be a fence north to south across the middle, and the Russians will be on the other side of the fence. The shed that used to belong to the leopards will now be for the Russians.
The last picture is a view from street level.
I've bought a bunch of seed, broad leaf and pasture grass, but I won't be planting until the fence people are finished.
In the first two pictures I'm standing at the west end of my property. I had to take two pictures to get the whole thing in. The first picture I'm pointing the camera to the street, then the second I've pointed the camera to my driveway. I'm at the west end of the desert tortoise yard. The Texas tortoises will have a strip along the driveway. There will be a fence north to south across the middle, and the Russians will be on the other side of the fence. The shed that used to belong to the leopards will now be for the Russians.
The last picture is a view from street level.
I've bought a bunch of seed, broad leaf and pasture grass, but I won't be planting until the fence people are finished.
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