Gaining space

So, one evening this past week, I arrived home to find the propane tank moved right next to the house, blocking the dog door. Why, you might ask, would anyone do that?


Well, it's all part of the gaining space movement.








If you look carefully at the next photo, the broom marks the present location of the drain. The dog bowl in the middle of the track marks the prior location. Given that the bank used to come down right beside the drain, you can see we had NO space to drive through this area. That has been rectified, and the drain now sits so far into the bank area that it doesn't need a grate over it.

The pipe is large enough, and our water volume gets big enough, that we are told it will "self-clean" meaning we don't need to worry about leaves, etc. Cool, huh?

Dirt was removed all along the bank and around the corner back to the lot line.

The hole in the ground is where the propane tank used to sit.

Thanks to Fred Lowe we aren't even going to have to pour more concrete! He moved the old pad and will reposition it to the back of the newly flat area then re-plumb it. We'll also need to get gravel brought in soon as the clay will turn to red mud as soon as the rains get going.



At some point we'll add on a roof at the point where it will it attach to the current back porch roof and bring that out to form a carport. The area gained by moving the tank will give us plenty of room to back out and be able to exit forward rather than in reverse.

And, we'll be able to put the garden shed to the back also, near the propane tank and out of the way.


I'm kinda thinkin' there's nuttin' that Fred can't do.