Heavy lifting
But not on my part... no siree, those days are gone. I even mow the yard sitting down. No, this is the story of the driveway replacement... aging concrete, but also with a three- or four-inch rise in one of the slabs, brought on by a tree root. Oh it also cracked the slab north-to-south entirely We hired a snowplow once, I can't remember why, and the pickup truck bounced when the blade hit the outcrop. A major impediment. And since we didn't quite exhaust our life savings traveling to Italy, we engaged a local concrete business to freshen up the joint. The first step, of course, is to remove the step (and front sidewalk). Here's the view of our front door: "Able" is the concrete company, not a challenge as in "are you able to leap from the porch to the dirt, or more to the point, from the dirt to the porch?" Backing slowly away from that breathtaking view, we see the front sidewalk, or rather the lack thereof, with Linda's car parked at Bruce and T...