It always takes longer than you think
Oct. 29th, 2017 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaThe company which is running fiber optic internet to our neighbourhood told us last winter that it would be dug in sometime this summer. Yah. Summer. October is nearly over, temperatures are fluctuating between just below and just above freezing, and we have had some snow. But they got the lines buried along the road to our house this week, and David and I spent this weekend working on getting the line from the road to our house. We had initially hoped to use his brother's digger to do that ditch when he was here this summer, but since they had some mechanical issues that put them half a day behind on the landscaping projects, and the company still hadn't shown any signs of getting to our neighbourhood, we opted not to. We did consider renting a digger for an afternoon once it was actually time to do the digging between the road and our house, but now that it is here we decided to save the money and do it ourselves.
Last night's snowfall only accumulated about 2 cm of snow on the ground, but it was just cold enough today that the snow survived. However, the ground was still soft enough that we managed to finish digging the trench by late afternoon/early evening. Then we used a vacuum to blow a string through some spare plastic water piping that came with the house, then taped that string to the orange cable, and then dragged the cable through the pipe. Then we started putting the pipe into the trench and burying it. However, but that point it was well well after sunset, and the piles of dirt along the trench had started to freeze, making the process much harder than it would have been a day or three ago. Even so we managed to get the line mostly buried from the road, up and across the driveway, and to the corner of the house. We will have to fix it up better later, and finish the part along side of the house to where it will attach to the wall, but the important part is done.
However, this took all day--I had hoped to also do some packing for next weekend's event, and go to folk music at 16:00 (so I can work on the still not done hood for the prize for the archery contest next weekend), and to folk dance, and I didn't manage any of these--it was almost 22:00 before we called the project "done enough for today" and came in.
Even so, after I came in and David and Caroline went to the apartment I went downstairs and did a second coat of paint on the part of the boiler room floor under the water filters--the paint had been peeling this summer, and it was past time to get that project done. Then I did some Norrskensfest stuff, and now I should do my yoga and get to bed, since it is soon midnight and I have to work tomorrow.
Last night's snowfall only accumulated about 2 cm of snow on the ground, but it was just cold enough today that the snow survived. However, the ground was still soft enough that we managed to finish digging the trench by late afternoon/early evening. Then we used a vacuum to blow a string through some spare plastic water piping that came with the house, then taped that string to the orange cable, and then dragged the cable through the pipe. Then we started putting the pipe into the trench and burying it. However, but that point it was well well after sunset, and the piles of dirt along the trench had started to freeze, making the process much harder than it would have been a day or three ago. Even so we managed to get the line mostly buried from the road, up and across the driveway, and to the corner of the house. We will have to fix it up better later, and finish the part along side of the house to where it will attach to the wall, but the important part is done.
However, this took all day--I had hoped to also do some packing for next weekend's event, and go to folk music at 16:00 (so I can work on the still not done hood for the prize for the archery contest next weekend), and to folk dance, and I didn't manage any of these--it was almost 22:00 before we called the project "done enough for today" and came in.
Even so, after I came in and David and Caroline went to the apartment I went downstairs and did a second coat of paint on the part of the boiler room floor under the water filters--the paint had been peeling this summer, and it was past time to get that project done. Then I did some Norrskensfest stuff, and now I should do my yoga and get to bed, since it is soon midnight and I have to work tomorrow.