Also somewhere around the middle of the month, at that.
Actual milestone attained yesterday: Operation Boat Lift is now operational, and the overgrown kayak (fiberglass poke boat, actually) is now stored up in the barn rafters, like the Boat of Damocles. This frees up considerable floor space - the square footage formerly occupied by the boat itself plus the space that wasn't usable because the boat was in the middle of it.
This morning, we made a grocery-pickup run in the truck, and according to the voltmeter, the alternator charged the battery right up. Sometime next week, a recycling run! There's a heck of a lot of garage floor space to be reclaimed.
And I guess next week will be time to see about getting the Venerable Prius fixed.
I still haven't scraped the driveway, but I think that's a Friday or Saturday project; we're supposed to catch the outskirts of the latest hurricane as it winds down, bringing rather a lot of rain tomorrow, and I expect the runoff to re-erode the driveway, so no point dragging the gravel back uphill now. We're hoping to get the driveway re-graded, re-graveled, and extended early next year (the project having been repeatedly postponed for one reason and another), but I'm thinking that as a stopgap measure I should probably put some low-strength concrete in a few strategic spots to divert runoff from the gulleys into the official ditch alongside the driveway.
Sometime soon, I need to organize a lumber-and-other-big-stuff order from Home Despot. Got to figure out what projects happen in the fall/winter timeframe, and stock up for them; spring projects can wait a while. One fall project, for after the hay mowing: create a well-defined drainage channel for the Seasonal Swamp (future pond), and build a pedestrian/lawnmower bridge over it. Otherwise, well, there's a great wide seasonal muddy obstacle between the residence and barn, at front, and the big field, at back.
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