Power company - no show. Even my contractor was in disbelief.  I contacted him asking him if it's ok to put down grass seed or should I wait until the gravel is spread? Please wait!  I kind of thought so.  I did put the seed down on the doggy park tho, the gravel operation won't affect that area.  Tomorrow marks the last day that the engineer said they would show up to install the poles/lines.  That's 3 weeks later than what they said they were going to do.  

I had the 25 year old back today - but he brought his younger brother (without letting me know) to work on the main driveway.  The gas company isn't adequately maintaining it and I think I'm going to send them a bill for half of the cost to get all of that brush out of there. Yeah, I doubt they will pay either, but it's worth a try.  If anything ever goes to court, there will be an email-trail of attempts to get them to do anything. 

Anyway, the younger was "helping" the older by standing around with a big pair of clippers - doing nothing. Clippers irrelevant and useless for that operation, the only thing that's needed is a chainsaw.  So, I called him over and informed him I needed him to pull weeds, showing him what I wanted done.  I got busy on the machine, even tho it rained heavily last night and the ground not in great shape for doing any dirt work, I had the thing and there were a couple of things I really needed to get done, mud or no. 

I get back to where they are working after completing those tasks and where is the younger brother? Back with his older brother.  Doing nothing, again.  Well, I had to leave with the machine to return it. When I got back, of course he's standing there.  So, I drove up to him and informed him that "I don't need you over here, I need you pulling those weeds over there" pointing at the back row.  Your brother can do all of this by himself, as he was doing so yesterday.

The boy made excuses and walked over to the weeds and started pulling them. I had to leave. Upon return after they left? Yeah, very little done - by either one.   Irritating.  I told them I didn't need them tomorrow.....probably won't "need" them again.  I got some work out of them, just not what I'm paying them worth'.  

I took that ridiculous sign out.  They can have it back.  The one that says no hunting, dogs, guns, fishing, alcohol, etc.  They aren't having such signs on my property, period.  I get to determine if there is hunting, dogs, guns, fishing, alcohol, etc.  It's laying there on the ground, they can recover it if they like. The sign wasn't even on their easement-meaning it was on my property that they have no control over. 

  I also cleared out 2 spots for the new sign up front.  I haven't decided where to put it and I don't want to be fooling with weeds if I decide one location is better than another - they are both good locations.  I think I need a second set of eyes to help determine which one is best.  

And because it poured rain over there last night, I got to see this morning if the drainage pipes are working. Yes, they are working but there's 3 more places where I am going to need to install drainage pipe, very much unfortunately.  At $125 per stick, that's an expensive proposition.  But it's clearly in need of it.  It'll just eat away at my driveway - gravel or not - the money spent is the money saved.  I was going to dig out the trenches for them at least while I had the machine - but it was far too muddy in there, no way was I going to destroy the driveway driving that machine over it.  I can probably do that stuff by hand, I guess, I don't really want to spend another near-$400 for a day's worth of that machine just for that.  

That's it, really. I did manage to start Keto yesterday and am on it again today. I think I can get back into it again, just limiting it to chicken, turkey and certain types of fish.  Lots of salad.  I'm at an unhealthy weight and it's time to get serious about shedding it.  

Well, here's to hoping that tomorrow? The power company will finally show up.

G'day.