Day 273

I got up as soon as the alarm went off today.  After the pets and breakfast I went outside to start moving gravel.  That's when I discovered that one of the tires on the cart was split.  Of course I didn't see the split (it was on the inside) until I'd tried to fill it with Slime.

So it was off to Harbor Freight.  Amazingly the tires were on sale.  So I bought 4.  I'm assuming the other three won't last the whole driveway experience.  When we got back home I fixed the cart and then decided to move gravel even though it was getting hot.  It was 9:45 by the time I got started, and hour and a half after I'd first gone outside.

It was in the high 80's by the time I started and the clouds were almost gone.  It was 94 by the time I finished.  I worked for an hour and a half and moved 17 loads of gravel, the same as yesterday.  When  came back inside I was almost too tired to stand in the shower.  I more than doubled the amount of roadway that has been completed, but it sure doesn't seem that way when you look at it.  I have less than half the gravel left.  It will take at least another 9 yards besides what I have left to complete the task.

After a shower, lunch, Minions, and an hour's rest we went to the post office.  Then I stopped for a snow cone.  I think half of the attraction is the snow cone and half is sitting under the trees watching the traffic.

I didn't run Lucy today.  She didn't seem to mind.

I got 2 squirrels today.  I hit one with the car (unintentionally) when we went to Harbor Freight.  I think it had a death wish.  It deliberately ran out in front of the car.  The other I shot.  I may have gotten another, but I think it was wearing Kevlar.  I hit it at least twice and it still ran off.

When we got home the rest of the day was surfing and watching TV.  Ellen made reservations at a hotel in Waco for tomorrow night.  We're going there for a gun show, to shoot 5-stand, and to look at the town.  Lucy may get a chance to swim.