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This week last year

Morning visitors

A couple of weeks ago, while getting ready to head out the door to work, my husband and I spotted these little guys romping around the yard. It seems that midnight bandits like the daytime and climb chain link fences like monkeys or people. After taking these pictures and watching the wrestle for a while, [...]

Slinky

 

 

The excavators have come and gone for the new geothermal heat pump, leaving little behind to show that they were here. There are 6000 feet of pipe in the ground, coiled around so that its laid out in six 100 foot sections like a slinky that’s been stretched beyond its endurance. The pipe is [...]

Of power tools and ditches

Finally, progress. The weather has been warm enough, in the 40s, to allow for digging trenches.Working with giant powered trenchers in the rain just isn’t a good idea, so we had to wait for the winter to turn a corner. And last weekend, it certainly did it’s job.
With the visit of the consultant, I was [...]