March 18, 2017

  • Retirement Home

    When we get a lot of rain all at once, strange things happen.  One is that the retirement home I'm looking at lost about two months of construction time, all in about 3 days!  They are doing major grading in the hillside, but they had lined some "holes" with plastic to prevent pooling and flooding.  There was some pooling before the big rains.  They now are having to spend time re-compacting some of the earth, and turning a lot of soil to help it dry out!  It's all beautifully green, though, and I took a few more pictures last week to update:

    The first two shots are the view from below the location of the complex.  On the left, there is a new road being built, linking this area to San Clemente and the waterfrong activities there (just a little south of Dana Point).

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    And the rest are of the area being graded.

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    For some of these photos, I was standing in a parking lot for a community park that will be used for horse shows, etc., and for other civic events.  The parking aisles are delineated by orange trees -- young trees at this point, but they grow quickly!  The hillsides are emerald green right now -- they are prettier than I remember for quite a while, and with more rain predicted for the coming week, they should stay beautiful for longer than usual!  It's a very pretty spring here right now!

Comments (10)

  • It's nice to see the green in your area and the progress of the retirement home construction.

  • It's so nice to see green in California again!

  • Enjoy the Spring green. I can almost smell the orange trees.

    • Funny thing -- as green as it is, the orange blossoms weren't as fragrant as I expected. The trees are pretty young, and stressed from the drought, so they are probably trying pretty hard to do the things we expect!

  • I'm glad the rain has given you a proper spring! I can imagine that the drought has made the soil very "thirsty" and with the excavations I'm happy there weren't any mudslides!

    • Yes, the soil is VERY thirsty, but also pretty solid -- it takes a lot of water to quench that thirst, and to soak in. The excavations have been accompanied by compaction, and most of the area seems to be pretty well compacted. They have spent the last couple of weeks making sure it's all properly compacted, and turning the soil on top so it could dry out more quickly. And now we are about to have more rain!!!

  • It's easy to lose your work in the rain! I know the law says plastic around the construction sites but it seems a lot of wasted time and expense to me. But then, what do I know? :D

    • The plastic actually seems to have contained lakes which could be drained rather than soaking into the construction area -- it was a good idea. They spent a lot of time turning wet soil to help it dry out anyway!

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