All's Quiet On The Western Front - Today

We've been very busy since arriving home. The biggest project has been replacement of the driveway. Wednesday was very noisy and involved a lot of heavy equipment - dump trucks, bobcats, jack hammers, concrete saws, and, of course, sledge hammers. Removal went smoothly. Several dump truck loads later the crew cleared out for the day. Starting in the early hours of Thursday, the rains came. The end result was a large mudhole with pockets of small pools in several of the low spots. Ed's friend from New Orleans, Mike Power, came over to stay the night. He suggested we start growing rice and crawfish.

Friday morning the rains stopped and the crew showed up. First, pumping out all the water. Next, more dump trucks with gravel and bobcat to grade etc. No luck pouring cement though because we are now having an unseasonable cold spell. Low 30's last night and in the 20s tonight. At least we're not getting the snow Nebraska & Iowa are seeing. Plus we can walk on the gravel. Pleep and Delete enjoyed watching the guys remove the driveway but they were not interested in the mud pit at all.

Pleep got up on Saturday and announced his intention of going to Barley's Brewhaus. He pointed out that we hadn't been in there in three weeks. We headed over to Barleys for an enjoyable afternoon, made more enjoyable because Notre Dame has a bye this week. No angst. To quote our friend Len Muller, Go Irish, Go Away Weiss.

We head to Nawlins (New Orleans) at the end of the week. We're hoping to have a driveway we can walk on by the time we leave. No driving on it for at least 10 days after they pour.