September 1, 2005

The gravel was delivered today. That is good and bad. We honestly forgot that we needed to have some grade work done to put in the culvert before we bought gravel. So, the nice gravel man "Tony" explained that he would pour the driveway and leave a pile at the end of the drive for the grader to spread after he has covered the culvert. We are doing this driveway thing backwards it seems. No doubt not the first of a series of mistakes we will make. I pray that the ones we make in the future will be as painless as this one.

The cost of lumber is promising to skyrocket because of the devastating Hurricane Katrina in the Carolina's and Louisiana. There is an auction here this weekend (Labor Day sale) that has a few building supplies. We have already rented the post hole auger or we would go to the sale and try to save a bit of money. I hope we can get our lumber bought before it gets much higher.