Fast Fix-it

Perhaps it's the fastest ever that we've completed a fix-it to the house. By "we" I mean Ray and Ray. And this time it was mostly Ray our son. We've had water coming in one of the downstairs bedrooms since we moved here. Okay, so maybe the repair wasn't fast in commencing, but once started it was done quickly. Ray O (younger) dug out along the wall. The finished ditch was about two feet wide, eleven feet long, and four and a half feet deep. Then Ray and Ray put in a french drain and hooked it up to the drainpipe from the downspout. Then Ray O filled in the ditch. Time to complete: 2 days.

It was supposed to rain all week. Ray shoveled the last of the dirt back, and it started raining an hour later. Not a drop fell the whole time he was working. What a blessing.

Here's the laborer hard at work:

Here's his captivated audience. The boys had a lot of fun watching Ray:

I had a lot of fun watching everyone!