Jenny On the Spot

Despite our best effort to utilize the best option (the shortest path, tree-free, landscape design-free), a cranky neighbor and a neighbor not willing to explore options (not as much cranky as they are affected by cranky neighbor’s cranky-influenced gossip) dash our money and time-saving hopes against a wall of hard-headedness. Cranky. I digress…

My dear husband has spent hours upon hours this past week working. The work he has been doing is especially impressive. On a Case 580 he’s been digging a 3 foot-deep trench, laying conduit for power, telephone & cable, and filling the trench back up - along all 700 feet of the drive.

He even did it yesterday in the pouring rain after I returned from my 5 am to 9 am post-Thanksgiving deal hunt. He did it early Thanksgiving morning… It must get done because no other work can be done on the property until the road is accessible! There have been a few equipment problems. We even had the original Case replaced with another, and it broke last night! The rental company is sending a new machine that has only 50 hours on it today… I try to anticipate anything and I still find surprises. Maybe I need to be more imaginative :)

Thankfully, he has not been all alone in his effort. It is with much thanks and overwhelming gratitude that our entire family thanks Bart. No, not the Bay Area Rapit Transit! Our friend Bart- a dedicated trench-and-conduit-in-any-weather-kind-of-friend. He has spent many hours with my hubby “in the trenches” - literally! Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you….