Snap, Crackle, Pop

That used to be our nickname for Jersey since her joints crack often, but it now has a new meaning.

The rocks on our lot are blue granite, one of the hardest rocks. To get through it, they drill these holes and fill them with chemicals. When the chemicals get hot, they expand and crack the rock. (Thank goodness we live where we do... it gets HOT!) We even heard the popping of the rock. So crazy!

Rocks, Rocks, and More Rocks

When the radius is longer than I am tall, can you still call it a rock? I guess they are more like mountains, made of blue granite.

The orange dots are where they plan to drill and fill with chemicals that (hopefully) split the rock up. Wish us luck!

Cassie's Bachelorette

Club Vex

South Lake Tahoe

Enjoying the 4th in Tahoe

Happy 4th of July!

Isn't my nephew so cute? And much more exciting than the pictures of dirt.

Lots of Action This Morning

So we had three tractors, two hauling trucks and quite a few people at the house today! That's what I like to see!

I wish you could have seen the look on Tim's face as the tractor tore out the trees this morning. He was like a kid in a candy shop.

Although it looks like this truck is dumping something it is not. It was having trouble getting around on the property so it had to lift up the back to relieve weight from the middle set of tires. In the back is the very LARGE tractor on top of a huge pile of asphalt. It was just about to start loading the asphalt into the truck to be recycled.

This might be the last day of demo pictures! Hopefully the next post will be of the grading. Hope everyone is having a great day!

BY THE WAY, DON'T FORGET...
NO MORE TALKING ON THE CELL PHONE IN THE CAR
UNLESS IT'S WITH BLUETOOTH OR SPEAKER.