I don't want to jinx it by celebrating too early, but I finally talked the state transportation department into looking at our upper driveway in terms of whether it is in their highway right-of-way and therefore they should help get it repaired so they don't lose the highway at some point.

Friday some surveyors came and put in stakes to indicate the right-of-way. Hot damn! The entire bad part of my embankment is in that right-of-way.

See that stake in the gap there?



This is it from a different angle:



Of course that's where the jinx comes in: I don't want to get too excited until I hear from them.

Snow is in the forecast, and I will have to park my truck above the bad part of the driveway because two different contractors have said the upper driveway could collapse any time if we get a lot of wet weather.

Meanwhile, I bought a new wood splitting wedge that I use with a sledge hammer. Sometimes it gets stuck in a log and I can't get it out, just have to keep working on it until it splits.



This made me laugh: