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After all the old pavement was hauled away….
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We were down to dirt and apparently a good bit of sand…
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Which, as it turns out…. is not good at all.
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At the same time our driveway was being destroyed and rebuilt the neighbor was having theirs worked on as well.
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Which means Lord Dudley Mountcatten has a hard time finding a quiet place to sleep.
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An inconvenienced cat is a horrible thing.
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Sand is bad for drainage and after scraping off the tar and a layer of topsoil, sand and clay is what they found.
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Which meant digging down a solid foot and hauling it away.
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Of course work could progress much more quickly if my husband wouldn’t go out and chat up the crew every hour on the hour.
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River's world..... 
I hope it gets done soon friend.
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It’s a long process, but hopefully worth it….
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Ugh….sand is the enemy of of asphalt, kinda. It could be why your old driveway ended up the way it did. His Lordship is recharging in the sun rays to show you how displeased he really is later, lol.
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I’m hoping this one holds up better… and longer.
His Lordship will have his revenge, I’m sure.
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Sand and clay ? I am tempted to say you have what I would call country fill as opposed to what I have here. Which is urban fill. The good news is I did not hear you mention other trash and junk. Which I have. Usually you have either sand or clay. So I am guessing someone added one to counteract the other. And it almost fixed it. Sand will drain just slowly. Clay on the other hand has the clayee muddy state or the hard as rock state. And seldom anything nice in between. Hope the new driveway works out good and they do it right ! Oh and as for the urban fill pick any piece of junk automotive, tool, or rubbish and it will be buried inbetween my two layers of clay. 47 years of gardening and digging and I am still pulling strange and unwanted things out of the ground when all I did was come outside to plant something in the garden.
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We live near a river and a lot of the deep soil isn’t soil at all, but clay. The sand must have been hauled in later. But yes, I’m guessing it beats a Studebaker radiator.
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Wishing you the best with your driveway and your tired cat.
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Your husband did not disappoint me, I see. This archeological dig, will it increase the cost (you know, since it was not expected and all)?
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It will not, which was a pleasant surprise.
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That’s what happens when our affable electrician comes over. He and the husband get gabbing and I’m like, “Dude! He charges by the hour!”
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If this was an hourly job I’d have hauled his butt in the house!
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I thought sand was GOOD for drainage. Go figure! (Our property is very sandy.)
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Apparently that’s what they thought here in 1974 as well.
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