Have Wheelbarrow, Will Shovel!

December 30, 2024December 30, 2024 Timothy Price75 Comments

Siver, Glenda and Loki

I be’d my own one-man long-haired redneck road crew this morning, and filled up all the potholes in the road that had developed from the little rain and snow we’ve got in November, and the freezing every night and thawing every day. I scraped ten wheelbarrow loads of base course and gravel off the edges of the road to fill in the potholes, and then dumped another 30 or so wheelbarrows of sand I dug out of the ditch bank to fill the areas that had sunk over the culvert. I walked three miles pushing that wheelbarrow back and forth for two hours.

Dig It Lightning

July 27, 2024July 27, 2024 Timothy Price45 Comments

Dawn

Half moon at dawn

Loki

Spunk gloves, gloving gloves

Sunset

Wall Stays

September 1, 2020 Timothy Price34 Comments

Uptown Albuquerque, New Mexico

Whacky

August 13, 2016August 13, 2016 Timothy Price10 Comments

I go whacky on a forest of giant weeds http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/8/whacky

Digging Ditches

April 20, 2014 Timothy Price8 Comments

I dug over 60 meters (about 180 feet) of ditches yesterday afternoon to make irrigating more efficient — we can irrigate every other Tuesday if there is water in the ditch. The areas that need to be watered most are furthest from the main canal, so the new ditches I dug will route the ditch water more directly to the end of the property that needs to be watered, by-passing the other areas. In past years, I’ve had real problems with only getting water about halfway to where I needed it before someone else took the water.

We have a larger variety of tulips blooming now — the tulips are not planted in areas that get irrigated (I water them with a drip system) so they are happy to bloom. The dry air doesn’t seem to bother them too much, but the hard frost makes them droop in the early morning hours until the sun warms them up, and they open again.