If lack of blog posting is any indicator of how busy we have been then I don't feel so bad, forgive me Lord it has been 19 days since my last blog confession. Nineteen busy, happy, hot days especially this past week where we have suffered through heat index temperatures past 100 degrees.
We had a great show last Friday and Saturday morning at our shop on 200W the annual Balloons Aloft past right over our building on their morning races. It was super groovy. The most balloons we counted were 26 at once. We went to the night firing at the airport as well, pretty cool when they fill them at night, the burners create a beautiful glow.
Thanks to our buddies at Aquarius Underground we were invited to bid on landscaping a new lake house. Aquarius was installing the irrigation so it was a good time for Shawn to show the crew how to work the newest Toro control box. We often need to run the irrigation systems so we try to keep informed.
This flagstone walk needed to meet up with the neighbors driveway and we wanted as few steps as possible so the solution was a short rock wall. Ryan set the base and showed Von how to build, he caught on quickly which is unusual. Von does have a good eye and like Ryan is artistic, a wood carver.
Once the wall was built the limestone base was installed, then leveling sand and the stones. Polymer sand is poured between the joints to form a hard grout like surface, helps keep weeds out also. Of course you can put grass, plants or sand in the joints but the poly-sand is easy care.
Sometimes we hit something buried underground, Tyler found his first phone line and Doug showed him how to repair it a valuable skill to learn.
We finished up the south side landscaping of a home on Jimmerson Lake and stained the existing concrete porch and walk. Before staining we patched some of the worst holes and cracks. The rich dark color adds a lot to the entrance. The home owners seldom used the walk so staining was an affordable solution rather than replacement.
