Here are the pictures for Saturday. Rob and Kate had come into town to pick up the order from the Russian Bakery. My freezer is now full of lovely delights from the Seattle-based bakery. Rob and Kate will take home the items they want to try any time they come to town. They remained in town as we were having our first in-person Dungeons and Dragons night since our first lockdown in March 2020. It was amazing and yet scary to be in the same room as other people without masks. We had all been fully vaccinated so we felt comfortable with the seven of us getting together again.
I took pictures of the driveway melting progress just before we prepared to go over for our D and D dinner and gaming night, so it is a few hours later than the normal mid-day pictures of the last several posts.
The tunnel continues to get smaller and smaller. The bottom rail of the fence closest to the house is finally becoming visible and the top rail to the left is beginning to show. Actually, all around the fenced part of the yard, little sections of the top rail are revealing themselves.
The left side of the driveway is becoming more uncovered. There are pronounced puddles in the driveway area that freeze during the night when the temps get down into the '20s, but during the days it gets up into the '50s. You can also see much more of the top rail on the right side.
This is the flood control area next to the garage. The two sawhorses are keeping the hose up out of the water and giving a more level run into the tube and out beyond the fence. Rob brought over a little electronic monitoring device that he created that will help the pump self-govern itself when the water gets too low for the pump to operate or to stop when the temps near freezing. He spent most of the day working on tweaking the settings. But this year we did not have any of the floodings into the garage we experienced last year as we knew what was going to be happening and got set up before it could happen.
I will update today's progress in a post later today.
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