Lights!

So, yesterday after work, I took the plunge and picked up where the landscape contractor had stalled out - wiring up the yard spots.

I cut the intended wire, hooked up a pigtail, and wired the pigtail to the power supply. Then, R got the honor of plugging the power supply into the AC Power. It worked. Sorta.

From the power supply, we now have two separate lines of lights. We got some lights working on both lines. Good. Power seems to be going to both wires properly. We just need to tune the individual wire hookups until all the lights fire up!

We can pretty much take yard lights off the list - just tuning left to be done.

 

R and C worked together yesterday to finish the french drain we've been building along the east side of the house. I helped with the finish-up; they did most of the heavy work. A gravel drainage bed takes the water away from the house and into a french drain that runs toward the street. Buried, so we can grow the lawn right over the drain. One more thing off the list. YES!

 

In the coming month, we'll have a garage sale to clear out the extra stuff. We'll have finished the final tuning work I still have on my list. We'll have grass growing across the entire front yard, and grass filling in throughout the back yard. We'll have the side yard finished. We'll have all the yard debris removed.

Shoot, this is the sort of work I've become accustomed to doing in a weekend. I have a whole month in which to do it. This is heaven.