Sometimes the newspaper would be delivered to the end of the driveway just before the rain comes and the paper would be in the middle of the lake by the time we wake up. Or we'd have to wade a bit when going to get the mail. We've been wanting to get the driveway to quit being a lake after the rain. We couldn't dig a deeper trench downstream...it would cause broken bones when people fell into it and it would fill up anyway. We tried filling in the lake bed with rocks but that just made the lake a bit shallower.
On Monday, I came home at lunchtime since I was in Escondido for a doctor's appointment. I was checking the mail and talking with Mom on the phone when somebody drove by and asked if I wanted to fix my driveway. He was going to be doing some paving for a neighbor and while they're in the area with all their equipment they could do the job for a reduced price. (Right!) Since we did want to fix our driveway and money is just burning holes in our pockets, I decided that we've dilly-dallied too long on this project and we should have it done without even comparison shopping.Today I came home for lunch to see this:
It looks like the lake problem is solved. There might be a little bit of a puddle upstream but I don't think it will go over the neighbors' driveway. The puddle area should fill up with dirt pretty quickly and solve that puddle problem.I wonder if we should have gotten a better idea about how much this project should have cost. Who cares now?
Bring on the rain!
Update: I forgot to say that Jason, the person doing the work, is the sort who says "ashphalt."
5 comments:
It looks good, Timing is everything!
Finally a driveway that goes all the way to the street. YEAH!
Now the newspapers will probably be on the grass and we'll have to contend with sinking into gopher holes to fetch it.
Think positive,jerbear. Get a long-handled grabber that will reach across the yard to rescue the newspaper. The driveway looks great!
It looks great to me! We are thinking of making our driveway concrete from the street down. Right now we have gravel and sand and it washes away when we have rainstorms. Yours looks good!
Our driveway serves three households. I'd be happy if someone with a snowplow would come by after a storm.
The driveway looks great!
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