Driveway Progress

There is no school today because my area of Virginia received 14” of snow on Saturday.  It is really beautiful but it will halt the progress on our driveway until probably next week. 

I’m spending most of the day studying for a new class that I have to teach next year.  I’ve taught life science for the last 18 years and next year I have to teach physical science.  I haven’t had any physical science since high school!!  I’ve been studying, reading, taking notes, and doing a lot of worrying about it.  The more work I do now, the more prepared I’ll be in August when the new year starts.  I’m hoping to get a lot accomplished today.

The crew started working on the driveway last Wednesday.  I was amazed at the amount of work that they accomplished in three days.  I tried to document the progress each day, but I got home late two of the days and had trouble taking pictures at dusk.

These shots are from Wednesday night.  They cut the curb and dug out where the new driveway will go.

The sidewalks were removed and the new sidewalk area was marked.

The sidewalk was also removed here.  The steps here will later be removed and rebuilt. 

It was light when I got home on Thursday, so my second day progress pictures are much better.  The concrete for the new front entrance was poured.

Extra dirt is piled on this landscape bed in our front yard.  The guys will contour this to make a berm later in the project.  I’m sure they won’t need all of this soil.

The guys worked like crazy on Friday to prepare the driveway for the big snow in the forecast.  It looked pretty good when I got home.

Now it is snow covered!

I won’t have more progress to report until the snow melts.  It is really exciting to come home each day to see what has been accomplished.

Now back to studying potential and kinetic energy and energy transformations.  Blah!!!