#72 Cutting the Grass, Closing the Trenches, Building a Terrace

With the digger I'll take off some high bits here and there and then it's a pretty even slope. Then I can add some gravel. They've got a here at the building center they've got a mix of sand, gravel, sharp gravel which really compacts well. So I think I'll get that. Just a little explanation of what's going on at the moment. So I'm moving a lot of dirt around so I want to explain where that's going and why. I'm basically creating a flat area on the front and here on the back. The arrows indicate the flow of the water so this is slightly sloping down towards this retaining wall. And here the same way it's sloping down downhill. Just quickly from the side it's a bit like that. Two flat areas. This is about one meter twenty lower than this. This is actually slightly higher. And here it goes down into a drainage system. So the water actually around goes there away and the same here. The drainage that I built in a few weeks ago that's here that's coming out of the wall here. The same with a separate pipe of the rain gutter. It's coming out of this retaining wall there. It's not connected to the septic system. Those are two different systems. Now right now I'm working on this area to add more dirt here so I have a larger flat area here. Right now I can come around with a wheelbarrow but not with the trailer. And I want to be able to back up the trailer until here so I can unload sand, wood, furniture and whatnot. It makes this whole area just easier to walk around with wheelbarrows and carrying stuff around. This part I'll be working on next year. I mean this is all looking nice and grassy right now. I don't want to touch it. If I would want to build this entire thing this year I'd be busy this summer to make it look nice. So I'm waiting for a big demolition drill to get this huge stone out that's right here. And it's in the way of the drainage. So that needs to go out first and then I can make this area nice and build a part of this wall probably and flatten the soil here. temperature. End of the work week. I had dinner here this evening. I've been sitting here a bit more often because it's so nice with the cut grass and the wilderness back there. It makes a big difference. I cut most with the the petrol trimmer I have to admit. The scythe is really nice. I like the sound and the rhythm but it's impossible to do it in the corners and around obstacles. So it was a big job mainly because I'm allergic, I have a fever, asthma. So all that good stuff is coming up. So it was kind of hard. But good week. A lot of digging. Next week there will be more cleaning up on that side and that side. I hope I can break that rock. Let's see. Trailer. So it's Thursday now. Tomorrow I'm gonna go to Switzerland for a trailer because there was some Dutch guys, some friends from my brother. They offered to bring me a trailer from the Netherlands because the one I need I can't find here. Because I want the same one actually. I've been talking about a bigger car and trailer but let's talk about cars another time. But I'm gonna get the same trailer with a little fence because I need to be able to have big pieces like four meter planks on top of that. And all the trailers I could get here in Italy were those aluminium ones and they don't have a fence and they're actually quite expensive. So I want this just cheap off-the-shelf trailer like this one is as well. But then a new one because this one is broken in many parts. Because I'm gonna abuse it quite a bit. Guys from the Netherlands, they have a wedding in Switzerland and they offered if they needed to bring one here. So that's why I'm gonna drive to La Corvegne tomorrow morning and then to Switzerland to pick it up. And then I'll be back on Sunday I think. I've got a squirt. Yeah this is what I need. The guys already moved on. They're a bit in a rush. They're attending a wedding here. So Jelle and Hendrik Jan, thanks for bringing this. You can buy these also in France I believe and in Germany but not in Italy. I need a fence. It's almost the same. It's slightly bigger and wider. Perfect for a chair. I'm nearby Meiringen in a Swiss beautiful place. A lot of cyclists. Traffic on the road. The Grimsel Pass is very popular. Alright.