Freezing Rain, Sleet, and then some Snow

The weatherman was calling for 4" - 7" of snow... of course they were wrong.  After freezing rain, a bunch of sleet, and then a little snow we were set!  The kids have no hope of going to school any day this week and the driveway is perfect for sledding!

The designated 4 wheel driver - Christina

Nathan

Hope

Bear

Standing on the pond

Rod and I walking on the pond

our neighbors dog, Osce, getting a stick for Bear

The view walking back up to the house

Here are a few links to the sledding videos... not sure why some of them are blurry.. guess that would be the photographers fault.....

Tina sledding down with Bear hot on her heals!

 Tori and Hope.  Notice that as soon as Rod says "don't forget to wreck"... the wreck happens immediately!

Rod and Tori coming down from the road side of the driveway and making the turn toward the barn.

Driveway.. part.. who can keep count?

When you really clean or do a big project do you make a mess as a means to the end?  I know I normally do and this is what I have told myself over the last 24 hours... it will be better in the end... it will be better in the end....

This weekend was another driveway project.  As most people that know us can attest - our driveway is the worst part of our house.  One day I dream it will be paved... until that day, we will continue to work on it and put gravel down.

The biggest problem is the driveway is over 100 feet of elevation change - down and back up... Water runoff is a big problem that we have worked to overcome.  So this weekend Rod started work on the road side of the diveway.  There has been a huge rock shelf that sticks out toward the driveway causing water to run from the hillside across the drive. We used a skid loader with a breaker drill attachment (ok, I might not have all the names correct for these pieces of equipment, but I think I do).

So this post is about the mess part... hopefully I will be posting in the very near future about the cleanup of the mess!

Here are the pictures from this weekend:

Before they started.  A look from the house side down and the road side is in the distance

Yes, this used to be the drive way.  This was after digging had started

All this rock was broken up by the skid loader

The new improved ditch to catch the water

Looking down from the top from the road

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The rock shelf that was in the way

I don't think these two loads are going to do much....Buying gravel is something I hate to do!