Wild & Three Thursday!

UGH, it's been a week. The good is that the Vernon County Youth Fair started this week. We took our turn in the "pop shack" and have been cruising in and out attending the many, many activities going on. The exhibit hall is in the "new" building which was fun to see. The Little Britches Rodeo saw a whole host of new generation cousins giving mutton busting a go. What a hoot! Then strolling through the barns looking for names of kids we know. Fun, for sure and we still have two more days!

It's not the bad, but it's the OMG ugly of the week in that we are finally getting serious about our broken culvert that runs under our driveway. Shame on the builder (JJ Curtis) and city inspector for this. So we have slowly tried different things to "help" this situation but it is definitely in need of a real fix. We think we are onto that now...

 Using a grinder wheel to cut the broken plastic away.

 Using a sledge and small pipe to bust through MORE broken plastic.

Finally, power spraying through the debris, after "plunging" it wth the larger plastic pipe, too. And nudging said pipe through with the lawnmower for more muscle.

We are now waiting on sore muscles to recede as well as the power spraying water! Then we will try cutting away more of the broken plastic (which is from the mangled culvert). We believe this mess is a result of a crushed culvert that resulted when cement/work trucks drove over it causing it to collapse, which is turn makes it where cement, rock caved in around it. Thereby making it impossible for water to flow through which makes our ditch flood. Pretty much contractor incompetence in my book. House was sold that way to original owner. THAT my friends is a BIG party foul! In conversation with builder (JJ Curtis) he is not willing to correct the situation, so here we are trying to get it resolved with redneck ingenuity and brute force! BTW he's a real peach and building more homes on our street!