Despite everyone’s best efforts, we wrapped up today with still more to do. The yard preparation took longer than expected: we didn’t really start moving dirt until about 1:30 after having started just before 9:30. Found lots of new boulders to add to the retaining wall, too. âšī¸ All in all we accomplished:
- tore up the existing kooch grass sod
- pulled all the miscellaneous weeds
- cleared and levelled both sides of the house and the back
- filled the back corner and capped it with sand
- spread topsoil over about half of the area
A big thank you to Dad, Mom, Evan, Stephanie and Tammy. A extra thank you to Terry for his time on the Kubota, and a little thank you to Zachary and Miranda for being good today. đ
Also thanks to Mom for providing lunch and beverages. Kept us all as hydrated as possible.
Tomorrow, I’ll spread some of the topsoil which has been dumped but not levelled, and work to further prep the back corner and the slope to the retaining wall. Monday night, Terry will come back and move the rest of the topsoil.
We’re tired but happy we could help. Hope you’re not overdoing it today!
Just a couple hours this morning. Raked out the piles of dirt, dragged the stepladder and the roller around, and finished the soil around the tree. Then worked the back corner around a little more.
Tired now.
Yuck, don’t like the colors dude!
Anyhow, jeez I had to go to work the next day and thought it was going to be quiet. HA!
Between moving old heavy batteries off a boat and hanging from it’s riggings I was beat by days end.
Just think of how nice it will be to look out and not see sand anymore and soon enough grass…I haven’t talked to my neighbor yet but, maybe tonight.