More 'Home' improvement

With winter approaching, we know that the dogs will start to track mud in once the rain starts to fall. Our little site, in the area where we park the motor home, is basically just dirt. We've been trying to get grass to grow on the far side of the site and as such, we've been trying to keep the dogs off the lawn area and the section where we park the Moho. Since the dogs aren't allowed on the grass area, the only place they could go is the RV parking area. We arranged through a neighbor, to get a load of gravel delivered so that we could spread it around where the Motor home is parked. Initially, we were hoping that he could plop the load right in front of the motor home, but because the tight confines back in our area of the park, he felt the only place he could dump the load, was in the culdisac which is about 200 yards from our site.

Well, the load would have to be pretty good size to cover the entire area where the Moho is parked so this would mean there would be a lot of trips with a wheel barrow. So, Russ was good enough to loan me his pick up truck so that I could move the Gravel from the culdisac to the site. Well, as is usual for old Eric, this turned out to be a more involved project than I had initially thought. It took 7 loads with the pick up truck to move all of the gravel from the culdisac to the RV spot.

Also, it's a good thing that the load wasn't dumped in front of the motor home after all. Because if it had been dumped in front of the Moho, we wouldn't have been able to get it out so that gravel could have been placed underneath it. So, we moved in three loads with the motor home where it sits, and then we pulled the rig out so that the last three loads could be brought in and placed where the Moho is normally parked.

This project was a true team effort. Though I may have done a majority of the 'heavy lifting' of getting the gravel into the truck, Carol helped unloading a number of loads as well as helping to clean the site of leaves and other junk between loads.

We are truly happy with the way the gravel worked out. Though there wasn't quite enough to cover the entire site, there was more than enough to coat the site all the way back to past the rear axle of the rig.

Things at our old homestead are really shaping up and we are very happy with the way things are looking!

Happy camping! Eric and Carol Anderson