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| First order of business on Friday morning was pouring our driveway apron. I hadn't left for work yet and they got started. |
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| When I got home on Friday they had the steel plate over the new apron. I thank them for the trouble but we never used the steel to enter the driveway. |
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| No work happened over the weekend, but today (Monday) we got our terrace walk poured. They've been working on all the concrete work and might be finished with it today or else very soon. I did park in the driveway this afternoon. |
The pole you see in the pictures is propping up our cable from the pole across the street. It had been attached at the top of the pole but was knocked off early on, so is attached much lower and would hang too low over the street. Apparently the cable will be moved to the new pole toward the end of construction. We don't use the cable at all anymore, but the wire is still there and I don't want it to be hit and pull siding off the house or anything like that.
Aside from the construction it's really been life as normal, though it is starting to feel like the dog days of summer. I started to do some fall yard cleanup last weekend and my to-do list has grown, but all in due time.
4 comments:
It's interesting that they pour concrete slabs for these purposes with you. Over here they either use pre-formed paving slabs (maybe 60cm square or 100 x 60 rectangular max) or (more frequently for roads and pavements/sidewalks) tarmac.
Definitely no longer summer over here. Little difference in day and night temps at present, between 10-13 degrees C for both and, just for a change, even more rain. Ghastly.
- BW
That is interesting, BW. I imagine that would be more feasible in smaller, denser areas. They've been digging out much of the terrace areas and refilling with good dirt for trees, I believe. Not in front of us, we still have the big tree just to the right of us.
September was pretty warm around here, and unusually dry. The forecast highs are still to be warm (maybe 20-25ºC) but getting pretty chilly overnight and in the mornings (5-10ºC).
Ah, and by 'tarmac' I think that's what we would call blacktop. Used more for roads and bike paths around here. Not really for sidewalks at all, but sometimes driveways.
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