Greetings from the lil house in the brush.

My homemade with my own two hands lil house in the brush, where life is quiet and the world a thousand miles away!

I have not been online much due to server problems. It seems as of late this is happening too often. I am getting tired of this provider company so I am startin' to look around.

On a different note, the county finally delivered a dump load of caliche...(pronounced cuh-lee-chee)on Thursday. Definition of caliche: A white calcarious crust found at or near the surface in arid regions, formed from the evaporation of rainwater.

I had called them over two months ago to put my name on the list. They give you two loads and sometimes more if they have too much of caliche. It is very abundant in these parts. For those of you that are not familiar with caliche we use it to pave driveways. Actually it is a cheap way to pave a driveway and it is used widely around these parts. It packs well over a period of time. Since the area where I usually like to park my truck gets very muddy and messy when it rains alot and I WILL get the truck stuck even with 4x4 making it impossible to get out but rather sink and sink. Been there done that.

I told the delivery man when he called me on the phone to drive on in all the way towards the picnic table and to look to his right and he will see two bright pink ribbon markers and that is where I need him to dump it. Something inside me told me it wouldnt be where I asked him to put it. Well, I get there today and he dumped it by the entrance...about 100ft from where I needed it!

This makes it hard for me now and double the work to load it by shovel and put it where I wanted it. I will be honest and say that it overwhelmed me when I stood next to it. I moped about it fer a while knowing that the only way to do it in a timely and safe manner was to pay someone with a front end loader. Ahhh there was my answer but that was out of the question for today and I hadda get over it quick cause it just wasn't gonna happen. So I backed the truck up to the pile and started dumping it in the bed by hand and shovel.

Shoveling rock gets old and very heavy very quickly but I set out to do as much as I could physically do. It tired me out after the first two loads but I was determined to at least put enough down to where I could park my truck in the event it rains. Actually this is where I would like to make it my permanent parking area. Little by little it started to take shape and look like a parking space.

I aggravated my left shoulder again but kept on going until the pain kept getting worse. I'm ok just really sore. I just may get my friend to bring the tractor over next weekend and finish the rest. But I did enough to park my truck so it dont get stuck. This is what it looks like so far. I was happy with my progress.

I think I may have taken care of most of the bee problem. I did however kill three wasps today. I dont know where those came in through. There must be some lil hole Im not seeing that they are crawling through. At least there weren't a ton of 'em like before.

Well I guess that's it fer now. I hope everyone's Spring projects are coming along ok. I'm glad you stopped by fer a lil visit. Until next time, see you on the backroads...or in the brush...whichever comes first!