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[dadsbee]

Of course, splashing in puddles is a must at that age!

You're still doing it, I just know it !!!

 

[Richard Cranium]

Of course, splashing in puddles is a must at that age!

Not me. I avoid mud puddles as much as possible. You need to pave that driveway!

 

[dadsbee]

Not me. I avoid mud puddles as much as possible. You need to pave that driveway!

Yep after 32 years we've had enough of it. Paving is lined up for June/July. No cars for a couple years after 26,000 square feet of pavement go down. Hopefully most can just be fine graded and paved, as that's only $2 a square foot. It's excavation and fill that is another $6/sq. ft ! If that is determined to be more than a small portion of it, it'll be mud 'till I die. I'm not blowing $200K on pavement. Based on where I know it'll need dug, and a second layer for three pointing fuel trucks I'm hoping we come in below 80 grand.

 

[DeltaV]

Cobblestone would look nice.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Cobblestone would look nice.

What the hell, it’s only money. Wayne’s money.

 

[Richard Cranium]

The lake’s coming back. The darker the ice looks, the thinner it gets.

 

[Dave6T4]

Yeah; If I had his $$$, I wouldn't be spending any of my own!

 

[junior340]

My winter project restoration at work is almost ready for summer storage.

 

[RemCharger]

Yeah; If I had his $$$, I wouldn't be spending any of my own!

At that point you'd just burn it for heat!

 

[dadsbee]

What the hell, it’s only money. Wayne’s money.

It's starting to get pretty lean here, but that's always been the plan!

 

[dadsbee]

Ah Spring...

 

[Dave6T4]

Ah Spring...
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We're going to plant our bananas this weekend for late fall harvest, down here in Southern Ontario. We broke a temperature record here yesterday; 18 C. (64 F.).

 

[Hey-O]

1961.

 

[Hey-O]

Yep after 32 years we've had enough of it. Paving is lined up for June/July. No cars for a couple years after 26,000 square feet of pavement go down. Hopefully most can just be fine graded and paved, as that's only $2 a square foot. It's excavation and fill that is another $6/sq. ft ! If that is determined to be more than a small portion of it, it'll be mud 'till I die. I'm not blowing $200K on pavement. Based on where I know it'll need dug, and a second layer for three pointing fuel trucks I'm hoping we come in below 80 grand.

Life can be a bitch!! At our age we may need pavement, but we can also be to old to screw with it also..... pick your poison!! LOL

 

[dadsbee]

Life can be a bitch!! At our age we may need pavement, but we can also be to old to screw with it also..... pick your poison!! LOL

Too old to be power brooming gravel back where it belongs every Spring, tired of tracking it into house and shop, the Summer dust cloud that follows every vehicle and covers everything right up to the house roof.. and an 1/8th mile and plenty of shut down will be fun as well !!

 

[65CopCar]

Yep after 32 years we've had enough of it. Paving is lined up for June/July. No cars for a couple years after 26,000 square feet of pavement go down. Hopefully most can just be fine graded and paved, as that's only $2 a square foot. It's excavation and fill that is another $6/sq. ft ! If that is determined to be more than a small portion of it, it'll be mud 'till I die. I'm not blowing $200K on pavement. Based on where I know it'll need dug, and a second layer for three pointing fuel trucks I'm hoping we come in below 80 grand.

We have been at our house for just over 3 years. I'm done with the gravel/dirt. Paving it end of May/early June. Going asphalt. My wife and daughter are bucking me all the away. They say it won't be "aesthetically pleasing". They are driving me bonkers.

I have less than you. Paving around 10k sq feet.

 

[dadsbee]

Trumpeter Swans and GD1 in their back yard / field...

 

[Dave6T4]

Trumpeter Swans and GD1 in their back yard / field...
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We have Tundra Swans passing through our area right now. There is a pond about 10 miles North of us that naturalists maintain to feed the swans and other waterfowl. Birders travel many miles to come and view them. As many as 3,000 swans there some days.

 

[dadsbee]

We have Tundra Swans passing through our area right now. There is a pond about 10 miles North of us that naturalists maintain to feed the swans and other waterfowl. Birders travel many miles to come and view them. As many as 3,000 swans there some days.

It's kinda neat that they're in their field. I use to do the Wye Marshes Trumpeter counts from the air, Spring and Fall, for many years. Made many a Swan Steward use the "lunch bag" circling nests!

We had the original wild release "Pig Pen" in our Marsh behind the house, until some dick on a PWC hit her on purpose and broke her wing when she was out on Georgian Bay at the mouth of our outlet creek. Shot of her and 366, which was her grandson actually, and their 3 signets.

 

[Hey-O]

Too old to be power brooming gravel back where it belongs every Spring, tired of tracking it into house and shop, the Summer dust cloud that follows every vehicle and covers everything right up to the house roof.. and an 1/8th mile and plenty of shut down will be fun as well !!

You're preaching to the choir. I definitely get it, I don't do gravel, period. I've had a 250 foot concrete driveway. That nothing compared to your situation, but I get it.