UPDATE...

Though it has rained some in the past two weeks, there has been plenty of dry days to work on the road. The grader still has not moved from the current location for more than a month. The slag on the road still has not been spread out.

Today the sun is out and the roads are drying out. Everything is very green from the rain! There are only a few wet areas where a few of the the culverts are. Looks like it will be a warm weekend.

~Wendi Palmer

On A Side Note

Rather than fill this blog completely with negative stuff about the roads and such.........I thought I would add a few things about the beauty of the place we live.

This shot was taken on my way into the Ranch from the Pryor exit (#49) Rouse Rd.

If you have not come into the Ranch from that direction, I suggest you try it. It is about the same distance as the Aguilar exit but a much more scenic drive.

Progress???

This was what the hill on the main road going to the gate looked like as of this morning.

As you can see, several truckloads of "slag" have been delivered.

This material ("slag") is a mixture if road base and ground up concrete (as I understand it). It is not bad stuff when maintained properly and can harden into a decent driving surface. (We used a similar product on my in-law's place last summer).

Problem is, this stuff was delivered on Saturday, dumped in the middle of the road with a belly dump truck, and left. It has not been touched with a motor grader or spread out along the road.

In some area's the slag is 8 inches deep, 4 inches in others and some have none whatsoever.

Now, I am not a road building type guy, but you would think that if you were going to have a product delivered you would at least have the equipment on hand to deal with it when it arrived.

It has rained in the ranch for the last 2 day's and you would think that this product should be spread out properly prior to inclement weather to keep it from washing away.

I also find it interesting that this product was delivered on a weekend.......when most people visit the Ranch. Could this be an attempt to make it look like something is actually being done?

I can confirm that the grader has not moved from it's current location (next to the Lyons place) in at least a week.

So if you are at the Ranch in the next week or so, please do your part and drive on all sides of the road in a vain attempt to spread your monies worth of slag across the roads. (insert smiling sarcastic face here)