Work at Kyle's House

A couple weekends back we had a big event to celebrate the date that our Fraternity was brought to Rose-Hulman. It is called Founder's Day and we usually just have a nice dinner with a speaker then a little party afterwards. Alumni are invited back but we haven't had real great attendance the last couple of years. So this year we decided to make it an all day event and do a little work on our house to try and make it better and also to entice alumni to come back to see how the guys that are here now are treating their old house from years past. Our main goal for this event was to fix some of the drainage problems we have had. They rented a little backhoe and had me run it to dig a couple ditches and we also had a bunch of people digging, laying drain pipe, moving rock, and moving dirt.

This first picture is where we started behind the house and the drainage under the back deck.

This picture is of Kyle Bramlage (one of my roommates next year) moving the backhoe forward for me. I am also wearing a hard hat because a few people thought I needed it to look more professional.

Here are some guys working at the very back of our house on the retaining wall that we put in last year. They fixed the drainage around it and continued it out into the woods, the drainage that is.

I am down below the retaining wall here trying to help them move the dirt out but it rained the night before so it was too wet for me to move around. I had to use the hoe on the back on a tree to get myself out of that spot I am in too.

Here I am digging another ditch off the end of the volleyball court. It was a dreary morning as you can see and not the best to be digging.

This is just another picture of the retaining wall and all the digging they had to do to fix it all.