Aloha Dale, Everytime I read the posts about your and Dan's project updates, I have sore muscles for at least a week, grin...
Hearing about snow is astonishing to me as we have had about ten days of the hottest, most humid weather we had in months. I am wondering if there are signs of whether you're likely to have a very cold or mild Winter like there are in such places as Reno, Navada, where my parents live. Mom tells me that they can tell if the Winter is going to be severe by the thickness of the horses coats and there is a flower that wilts in early September if it is going to be particularly cold. It doesn't get that cold here, but I do notice a thickening of our cats coat if we are about to have a long and chilly Winter. Just wondering, Betsy At 03:40 AM 10/11/2009, you wrote: > > >Well, yesterday was the second day in a row with no rain so the >patio was dry. I put a couple of finishing touches to it, a couple >of bricks to cut and fit where things weren't perfectly square. >Janet and I then began sweeping the polymerized sand into the >cracks. I used 2 by 4s to divide the patio into manageable sections, >usually 8 by 15 inch chunks more or less, two bags about per >section. Once swept back and forth and back and forth I would set up >another pair of boards to move over and then dump two more bags and >leave Janet to get on with that while I shook the previously done >section down with my packer. Then another brush over to top up the >seams until we covered the nearly 50 feet. One final brush over and >another packing of the entire patio. This is difficult because of >the size, I used a bamboo stick like a cane to help orient my >distance from house walls and patio edge and the like. > >I just got well tucked into sweeping off any residue so it doesn't >stick and dirty the bricks when a sudden, and I mean sudden snow >flurry struck just around 8:30 last night. I couldn't keep ahead of >it with my big shop vac and had to give in. There has been an inch >and a bit of wet snow over everything all night. There shouldn't be >much of that sticky sand on the bricks but I won't know until the >snow is gone and it is a bugger to get off. I shovel the patio off >over the winter so perhaps the scraper will clean it up before >spring. All I needed was another hour or less! > >The snow should be gone by tomorrow so I should be able to pick up >the junk I left on the lawn then. I hope to lay a bit more retaining >wall before the final snow arrives for the season but it is cold and >wet now so might not get all that done. Usually permanent snow >arrives to stay around Remembrance day, November 11. We don't get >much useable weather though from now on and some of that is needed >to remove leaves and other garden clean-up. > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
