Fixing Up And Tearing Up

This morning I was laying in bed wondering if I should get up or turn over and sleep for another hour. The turning over part did not happen due to the fact that Sherri made me get up. She wanted me to get up and make some phone calls that I had been putting off for some time. We also were going to go down to the water company and get our water tap.

While out we planned on going by the Stone and Gravel place in Terrell. We wanted to get some washed river rock for the barn. We had cleachy in the beginning but it causes so much dust and if it gets wet…well it is not pretty.

What is really nice about the rock is that fact that you can walk bare footed on it and it does not hurt your feet. We also got some Oklahoma Flag stone for a walk way and fitted them all together. It all came together nicely.. We had ordered 8 yards of rock and I thought that it would not be enough to do the barn. I was really surprised to see that we had enough to do more than just the barn. We will have enough to do the yard off the porch. I want to lay brick for the BBQ area and then put the rock around it.

This is the fixen up part of the story and now I have to relate the tearing up part. The Motorhome was in the barn while we were doing half of the drive. Upon finishing that side it was time for me to pull the Motorhome out. The remaining part of the rock pile was on the passengers side of the RV so when I pulled out the Motorhome listed to the side and the back bedroom slide awning roller caught the left side of the barn opening. Crash was the first sound I heard then it was Sherri screaming STOP! I jumped out and went around to the drivers side and saw the damage to the barn and immediately started looking for any damage to the Motorhome. There was none that I could see at that time and was thankful for that.

Corner of the barn on the left bent by the awning roller on the right

 

We left the Motorhome where it was and finished what we could behind it. I was not going to move it again until the pile of rock was cleared out of the way.

We finished up all we were going to do that day and slept in the Motorhome where she sat… half in and half out of the barn. We left all the slides in for the night and slept quite comfortably.

The next morning we were up early to continue with our rock spreading. Sherri had to leave for Home Depot to pick up some ground cloth and edging for the side yard. While she was away Rodney and I pulled the Motorhome out of the barn without any problems. We checked the bedroom slide and found it to be in good working order.

After getting our house parked in the alley behind the barn I finished up some more loads of river rock and called it another day…

 

Somewhere in Time