Gravel Replay

Last week we had a gravel delivery that didn't go quite as planned. Today the same driver came to deliver gravel to the other end of the driveway, and this is what happened:

Backing in:

Tipping the truck and starting to dump the gravel:

So far, so good.

But then he ran off the driveway:

See the wheel under the cabin? That's sunk into the grass.

So a whole heap of gravel got dumped in one place because he couldn't keep going forwards. Then he backed over that to get back on the driveway:

Ready for take two:

Then he bunny-hopped, or kangaroo-hopped, or stalled, or... Whatever, we now had another pile of gravel:

Fortunately the rest of the operation went smoothly, he spread gravel towards the road, and he didn't hit the tree it looks like he is about to:

And it's another job for the handy little tractor!

After an hour or so of spreading the gravel where it was meant to be, the driveway looks good (although I didn't get a picture of the end result).

Meanwhile I planted some seedlings in the "pillow" section of my garden bed: