We finished with the gravel—see exciting photos in Part 1—and are well into the dirt-moving leg of our summer vacation ‘08, or what we dubbed the “Green Shift wahahahahahahaaaazzzifff”, because the top soil will enable us to plant things that will consume the evil greenhouse gasses like carbon and air and stuff, thus completely stopping the “man-made global warming”. This new “carbon sink” has caused much pollution however, as the gravel and top soil is being trucked to us from about 20 miles away in big diesel-spewing dump trucks, filled by huge diesel front-end loaders, etc. Therefore it will take approximately 8,000 years for our new plants to make up for this. Which makes me giggle a little as I sweat my butt off moving top soil.
Here I am watching the first load of top soil being dumped onto the driveway. We got 14 cubic yards for our first load (that’s 12.8016 meters or beaucoups des metres! for you liberals). Our neighbors now think we’re starting a grow op… and we just might have to, to pay for all this fabulous vacation extravagance. Anyway, please note the newly muscle-enhanced shoulder portion of the blogger standing in there in awe of all the vacation festivities being dumped onto his driveway.
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The scenery’s lovely, and the water’s warm, wish you were here, yadda.
This next photo is very scenic with the dump truck behind that mimosa tree. Hardcore politicos would be interested in knowing that I bought that tree from Bill Vander Zalm, who lives nearby. A new city government ordinance dictates that It’s now illegal for us to cut it down without a city permit.
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Here we have a wheelbarrow full of
cash
top soil being dumped into our
pit of despair
money pit
cash hole
new yard area, which is specially designed to accommodate the ever so precious bamboo that will adorn the new yard area, ending the “man-made global warming”. It has to be contained with the specially formulated rubber barrier (made from rubber plants in South America) sunk 30” deep into the gravel and soil, or the bamboo shoots would spread and sprout and take over the world, I’m told. Much like socialists, methinks, thus making this preventative donkey work feel more meaningful. (And I barricaded the area gooood, baby, just reflexively.)
Today we get a break from our dirt-moving leg of our vacation so we can start moving the fence onto the new concrete pillars we built. Then we get our next load of top soil. Soon the vacation will be over, and it will be back to work time —blogging and doing bothersome income-producing work and what not.
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