Our Parking Lot

By the end of today we should have a much better parking lot than the one we have been enduring for the last number of months. Two evenings ago Peter and I went over to the lot to mark out where the pavement will be and where we will eventually have "green space". Right now that "eventually" feels a long ways off! I'm just happy to not be slopping around in the slippery, wet black stuff!

While we were measuring and pounding in stakes and preparing to run surveyor's tape to mark off the property, friends stopped by for a quick peek at how things were going. We ended up spending time at the local coffee shop having a wonderful chat instead. We still got the lot marked out though, because John and Brenda Hand stayed and helped us finish up our evening's work before the sun set any further behind clouds that once again threatened to make construction a challenge. Also, I now have a name for the eastern hill that I will hopefully see from my new office window. Hand Hill. John's family has farmed that hill - so now I can give a name to that beautiful view beyond town that will greet me in the mornings!

We now have power all the way to the building. Lorne Green came by and finished running telephone and electrical lines to the mechanical room.



Today DB Bobcat was back filling in what was dug out yesterday. In the picture you see Danny (Danny Beach) on the phone while a skidsteer is spreading some pit run over what is called "filter fabric". There is a quite a bit of black dirt on the property - so rather than dig and dig and possibly dig down deeper, a heavy black fabric is put down and then pit run spread over top and compacted to prepare part of the base for our pavement. In some spots the clay wasn't too far down - but that wasn't guaranteed everywhere on the lot! Peter assured me this is not an unusual practice! Makes me wonder what the former grain elevators were built on!