We have (had) a few low spots in our parking area so some gravel would probably solve that. I called a local gravel place Tuesday about noon and we discussed what would work best and look good, so we settled on some and he asked, "when do you want it delivered?" Me, trying to be cute, "oh, we're in no hurry, anytime in the next couple of hours!" his reply, "Can't do it in two hours, how about three?" Well in less than three hours I had 15 tons of gravel piled in the midst of our parking area!!!! I need to read that driver's job description as he did not stay to help me spread it?
Anyway it is done and now we are going to get something, called "crusher run," put on the driveway itself and they tell me they can spread it up the driveway with just their dump truck. I sure hope so as I don't look forward to the same experience as with the flat area on top!
Birds, deer, squirrels, they are all sharing the four bird feeders we have out. We must have at least 50 dove that hang out around here. SL went outside this morning and it was like a gray explosion of dove, but I guess they figure, eating is better than getting shot at other places. The squirrels were out yesterday morning checking out a big, beatuiful, pileated woodpecker. Two squirrels and this big ole bird on the same log, like they were just visiting each other.
The dove keep trying to figure out how to get the food out of the feeders as they are mostly too small for them to perch on so they are left to eat what the tuffed titmouse (how would you like to be stuck with a name like that as they are neither a tit nor a mouse), and the black capped chickadees, juncos, and cardinals all knock the food on the ground and the wrens and sparrows and doves are content to eat off the ground. We even have a hairy woodpecker that comes by and feeds.
The two yearling deer were here Saturday morning, but very skittish, as since it is hunting season and I know some of the yahoo rednecks that live up here will shoot anything with four legs, I guess they have a right to be wary! The chipmunk has learned he can climb the metal pole that leads up to one of the feeders then a quick leap and pull-up and he is in chipmunk heaven with all that bird food. His little jaws are crammed full as he scampers back down and off to his burrow.
Once in a while, all the birds seem to disappear and I have learned to look up and sure enough (death from above) a hawk will be circling overhead. He screeches a couple of times and disappears and soon the birds all come back to feed!
Well gotta go and roll some more rocks down the mountain so you all stay fluffy and we did have our first frost this morning, too.
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Right before it rolled over my hand (no real damage), I was face down in the dirt, shoulder firmly wedged against this monstrosity (800 - 1000 pounds of granite boulder) I got everything out of the way finally before it took its final trip toward the house all but my hand! 
and out of season too? Sad!
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