I had no idea what these wire cages filled with rocks that are used in erosion control were called, but they are gabions. Anyway, I finished filling the cages in the driveway with rock this week, about 8 tractor buckets worth. Dan backfilled them and now we are ready for rain. Major rain. None is in the forecast, other than a 40% chance this weekend and should we get some precip, it will not be of the major kind. Most of our year's rainfall comes during "monsoon season" in July and August. So we will have to wait until then to see if our plan worked.
While I schlepped rocks, Dan improved our mounting block (used in getting on a horse, for any non-horse people out there). It was originally built on the guest ranch model where 2 horses could be led along the platform to make getting onto the horse easier for the guests. It was kind of a railway platform. Somehow our smaller model had a plywood deck, which of course did not drain at all and the paint was flaking off. So, we repurposed some 2x6 timbers and left some gaps to prevent rain from collecting. I had to talk Shawna and Emma into posing to make the picture a little more interesting.
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