Construction resumes

On Thursday we got a surprise visit from a local paving company. We had talked with this company when Brady was about to arrive, but we told them that we had too much going on to deal with that work at the time. So, they went away. However, our contractor is doing a job just two houses down the street and that house was scheduled to have their driveway paved yesterday. So, logically it made sense to him to have the company do both houses since all the equipment was there. So, at 9:40am on Thursday I got a call from Irene that 'some guy' from the paving company knocked on the door and asked if they could rip up the driveway to prepare it for paving. Classic. No notice at all. So I bolted out of work to help deal with them since Irene had an appointment to make. All in all, everything worked out. But if anyone thinks dealing with local contractors on big jobs is easy, they come talk to us an we'll set you straight. :)

Right now we have a big dirt driveway that smells somewhat like manure, so hopefully it will get paved soon. Then we can set up the basketball hoop!

First they crack up the existing pavement and scoop it up with the bobcat

Then they dump it in a big truck

They hand chiseled out the pavement leading in to the garage concrete floor slab

We had a sink hole issue in our last driveway. Rumor was because there used to be a tree there and the stump was not removed properly, so as it rotted, the sink hole got deeper. So I had the Bobcat guy dig to see what he could find. Sure enough, up came a stump!

Then the drop a ton of smelly dirt and spread it out
Then the get some teenager to walk the stamping machine around the ground to pack down the dirt. Pretty interesting overall. Too bad Brady is so small. Little boys would love watching this.