A Rather Rough Week

The weather has not been especially kind to us lately.

Monday was pretty much a lose because of the storm we got on Sunday. Left things far too muddy to work in. After a 4 hour delay a few of us went out for a quick inspection of the site. Fortunately everything was still relatively intact. We might have been able to go out and get a couple hours in during the late afternoon but opted, instead, to get caught up on paperwork and such back at the hotel.

Tuesday and Wednesday were much better. We tried to make up as much of the lost time as we could. Actually had a productive couple of days.

Didn't have such a great start on Thursday thanks to more rain. We cover things up as best we can directly over the units but the sloping ends of the trenches we are working in naturally collect runoff from the exposed portions outside the tents which then pools right where we're digging (the lowest part of the trench). Digging and screening went rather slowly until we were able to work below the first few waterlogged centimeters.

Working Friday just plain sucked!

Temperatures only got above freezing briefly in the mid-afternoon. Digging was not too bad but screening was a pain because the dirt was freezing in the screens faster than we could get through it! We did what we could but the day just seemed to drag on and on. By the end of the day everyone was miserable and we were feeling rather frozen ourselves. Had to keep moving to keep the circulation moving in fingers and toes. We were all more than ready for the weekend by the time the day was over.

Friday night made up for it a bit. There really aren't a lot of things to do here in Tell City but there is a bowling alley practically right across the street from the hotel so we hung out there for a while. Scores rarely broke 100 but we had a blast nonetheless. It was just a fun night out!

Afterwards we headed off to Braunies, a local pub just around the corner, to close out the evening. After a couple of games of darts we finally called it a night. It was a long night, topping off a long week.

We'd made plans to go into Louisville on Saturday but had to cancel them. Weather was fairly decent here but they were getting snow and freezing rain there. Not something we wanted to deal with so stayed in for most of the day. It was just as well. Those of us who had gone out the night before kinda needed the time to recover a bit (lol). Did go back to Braunies again later in the evening just to get out of the hotel but it was a very laid back night. Another round of darts, 3 games of euchre, and we were done.

Now its Sunday. Not much going on today. Gonna sneak in a couple loads of laundry when I can and wrap up some paperwork left over from Friday but nothing else on the schedule.

So where do we stand at this point?

Well, we are actually on schedule to have this project wrapped up on the 19th. As long as we don't have too much more trouble with the weather, that is. We have 15 more units to complete yet. If we don't expose a lot of featues along the way, its do-able in 2 weeks. If anything should should set us back, we'll still be shutting down on the 19th, to return and finish it up sometime soon after the New Year.

Almost everything along the westen half of the project site is completed. You can get an idea, though, of how much ground we have to cover yet in the photo below. Off in the distance is a small group of trees that the road is headed toward. We'll be done when we reach those trees.