Monday: (09/21) Up early. Moved the RV out of the driveway and down the street. Also the cars. Today's a busy day. First thing we received 8 tons of base rock on the driveway at 8am. The base rock is recycled concrete ground up to 3/4 in pieces with the sandy grit as well.
I then dashed over to Peninsula Building Materials in Redwood City to get filter cloth. It's placed under the baserock to keep the baserock from mixing with the clay soil.
About 11am the dumpster with the dirt was hauled away. I spent the day moving some of the baserock to the backyard for the base for the sheds. It may seem like I'm over doing it but we have heavy clay that heaves and ooses and I'm trying to make sure the floors stay somewhat flat and uncracked.
Breakfast was an English muffin with peanut butter and jelly. Lunch was Chinese from down the street. Our dinner was prepared by Courtney. It was Japanese. A nice tofu soup and a sweet chicken with onions on top of rice. Very good.
Lou and Dawn went shopping. They met Dawn and went out to Luu Noodle House for lunch. Ernie was busy with a doctor's appointment.
Tuesday: (09/22) Dawn had to get up early today to go to work in San Jose. It's supposed to be very hot today so an early start for Ernie and I seemed in order. We moved more of the baserock to the back yard and are ready to compact though I'll probably install some drain pipes first. I wanted to go to an Adobe Flex users meeting in San Francisco. It was all about the life cycle of Flex components, whatever that is. It was very informative. I caught the train toward SF about 3pm. The return train from SF left at 9:40pm so it was a late night.
I had an apple fritter for breakfast. Others had cereal. Lunch was a roast beef and cheese sandwich. My dinner was free pizza at the meeting.
Wednesday: (09/23)Ernie and I made a corral by the arbor and moved the excess base rock into the corral. It will be used for a couple of future project but that may not be until next year. Most of that excess was free because it brought the quantity up to 8 tons and the cost of the additional material was less than the delivery charge which became free at 8 tons. It was an awful lot of material, about 3 tons. I then put things back in order placing the berry plants that had been there around the pile. It isn't too obvious but is sort of like hiding an elephant. Next was a trip to a couple of hardware stores to get the drain piping and the rebar for the floor.
Breakfast was a bacon egg and cheese sandwich. Lunch was cheese, crackers and our good bologna. Dinner was BBQ ribs, macaroni salad and green beans.
Thursday: (09/24) I dug out some of the baserock I just placed and installed some drain pipes and then put the rock back. I should always engage the brain before deciding what to do each morning. We have a real water disposal problem when it rains and the pipes are just in case.
Breakfast was fried eggs and bologna with cheese. No bread in the house to place it in. Lunch was macaroni salad and an Italian sausage. Dinner was white fish, macaroni salad, and green beans.
Friday: (09/25) I did some final fill of the baserock then I went up to Redwood City and rented a plate vibrator. After compacting the baserock for the pad and returning the vibrator I cleaned up. I finished in time for all of us to go out to lunch.
Bread pudding for breakfast. We've been assigning Friday's as our dinner out night. Today's dinner was lunch at the Sunny Buffet in Sunnyvale, a Chinese buffet. Dawn baked some bread and we had hot fresh bread as our dinner.
Saturday: (09/26) Ernie and I built the forms and set the rebar for the shed floor.
Breakfast was the usual egg, bologna and cheese muffin. Lunch was macaroni salad and a sausage. Courtney fixed hamburgers for dinner.
Sunday: (09/27) Lou, Dawn and I headed over to Half Moon Bay (HMB) on the coast for a cooling off day.We visited many of th shops. Our favorites are the Half To Have It shop, an antique shop that has lots of interesting old yard decoration and lots of glass art. We also like the feed store. Traffic was mostly stop all the way across the mountains to the coast on highway 92. Lots of other people had the same idea to get away. That's the problem with weekends. We came home via Pescadero road a few miles South of HMB. It's a longer route through the mountains but much prettier and almost no traffic.
Breakfast was egg, bologna and Swiss cheese muffins. For lunch we shared a couple of sandwiches, avocado and cheese and a pastrami at a deli in Half Moon Bay. Ernie fixed meatloaf and garlic mashed potatoes for dinner.
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