Bowling Rock

During all this digging that was going on Dave was beginning to dig out some impressive rocks. 
Several nice thick flat rocks I was having him save in a special area to be used later.

Some other rocks....
Well, not all were so flat.  

One particular rock was exceptionally round.

Dave pulled it out with the excavator watch it fall out of the dirt.

And roll.

And roll some more.....

down the driveway...

and then it turned....yep, round rocks do that. 

They chose their own path.

And this one did.  It rolled down the driveway and then spontaneously turned right out of sight. 

Dave's thought?  Well, my truck is down there, but the rocks going the other way....

Until the top of his truck suddenly rocked back and forth a few times.

Could it be?

Yep.  Bowling Rock was nestled in his rear quarter panel just behind the tire.  Nestled right into the dent it made..... which is still there today.....

Bowling Rock

Haulin' Dirt.....

we have dug and moved dirt from one side to the other and back it seems!

Mainly we have dug out the side of the mountain to create dirt (And a LOT of rock - more on this later) so that we could add to the flat part of our "yard" and parking area for room to work.

We've created drive ways and parking areas where there was just a mountain side.  We've also reconfigured our driveway so we have wider turns at our switchbacks (Yet, our friends still have complaints!  *It's not for the faint at heart I guess)

And we've carved out the mountain to make room for our additions!

 

Diggin' diggin' diggin'....

....One bucketful at a time...

 

 

 Above Dave is slowly pushing dirt out in front to create some work area for the upcoming work on the porches and front of the house.... take note of the amount the room created by the peak protrudes over the lower bay window...

 Slowly pushing across - the view from a deck above

 Almost across.....

 .....dragging it smooth

~The Supervisor~

 More dirt.....

 .......and more dirt.

And the dirt continues.......