Project of the Year 2009, Part 2

Tuesday our rock arrived thanks to our neighbor, Matt B. He dropped off a full dump truck load of 3/4" crushed rock. When I came home that evening and saw the pile, I was concerned if it would be enough. It just didn't look like that much. The numbers told me it would be more than enough, but I wasn't sure seeing it sitting there.

Well, it was plenty! I had invited a few neighbors and friends over to help me move it that night. (They did a great job!) We carried quite a few loads out back to the shed foundation. I lost track how many it was, but it was a lot.


This is the finished foundation after preparation and a day of rain.


Next we spread the rock down the side of the house. That's when I really understood how much extra rock I had. Hehehe.

Because it is kind of narrow down the side of the house we had some overflow onto the driveway so we moved about a dozen wheelbarrow loads over to one of our neighbor's house who is also doing some external renovating. That cleared the drive way but still left me with the pile of rock kind of visible in the picture above. More of that will be going down to the aforementioned neighbor. He just needs to put up some of his fence so he is ready for the rest of the rock. We're in no hurry thankfully. I hope to help him out this week, anyhow, since he has loaned me several tools and taken some of my excavated dirt. :)

Friday I took the day off work to enjoy with the kids(UEA weekend) and to supervise the delivery and building of the shed. In typical construction fashion the crew didn't show up until after lunch, but they did a good job, put up with me and it was still done in about three hours. We even salvaged the tree limb that sits about 1-2" off the finished roof. (Going to have to keep an eye on it, but we want to keep the shade it provides.)

So, here it is in all it's primer glory:

The funny thing is it will probably be a similar shade once we paint it, just with white trim.

Now to flush out the inside with shelves and hangers and such so I can start moving stuff inside. Getting closer to use and more exciting!