Frugal "I Did It!" Tuesday #5

Tuesday is here! Thank you for being a part of "I Did It" Tuesdays. I can't wait to see all the wonderful posts!

The most clicked on posts from last week are:

Vegan Cold Process Soap by Good Clean Food

5 Years to Finish by Kadidids

and

How to Make Coconut Butter by An Organic Wife

Now on to the blog hop!  So glad you could join us.

I look forward to reading each and every post!

A few rules (I really hate rules but we must have a few)

1. Link up anything that is: Something you made or did that is frugal

2. Link back. Please ensure you put a link back to this page. You can grab the button below or just post a link somewhere in your blog.

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3. Visit a few of the other links on the page.

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Coming Soon To A Road Near Us

Brrr...  I can't get warm this morning. Temperatures have plummeted in the last week and there is a nip in the air I'm not liking. While this cool snap most likely will not last long, yet. It is a reminder that fall will be here soon and we must hurry to prepare for winter. Winter.... That word makes me shiver even more! I refuse to start a fire though. It's the middle of August and I am being stubborn, after all this is supposed to be a hot month so there should be no need for a fire! Excuse me while I get some more hot tea......

Back...

For the last five years we have had this for a driveway.

Not much to look at and wait until it rains! Usually we end up leaving the vehicles at the road and walking or quading the half mile to the house. When it gets real bad even a four wheel drive can't make it through the mud. Five years! That is a long time to deal with this but since trucking gravel in and building up the driveway is so expensive we didn't have an option. Until now.

We knew we had some nice gravel on our land but thought the cost of digging it up might be pretty high. Enter a wonderful neighbor who owns a track hoe and would like us to do him a favor. In exchange he brought his equipment over and went to work. Yes! 

Look at all that beautiful gravel! That right there is quite a few $1000 worth of gravel if we were to have it trucked in and he isn't finished yet! So excited! Not sure when we will be able to spread it but just to see it happening is exciting. 

Not to mention when this is finally completed we will also have a wonderful swimming hole or fish pond! I sure do love it when a plan starts coming together. Thank you to good neighbors!