Monday, June 15, 2009

The Great Dirt Redistribution Project

This weekend, we endeavoured to fill in the pit in our backyard with dirt, so that we could plant grass seed there. On Friday, we had 10 cubic yards of dirt dumped on our driveway, which we proceeded to take wheelbarrow-load by wheelbarrow-load back to the back yard and spread it out. It took two days, and my dad calculated that we spread about 12 tons of dirt. Ouch!

Before:


The mountain of dirt:



I'm happy because I haven't actually started doing anything yet...



The finished product!:


The after-effects of hauling 12 tons of dirt without wearing sunscreen....



So, after 2 days and 12 tons worth of dirt, we're both really sore and really sunburnt! But we got it done. Hallelujah.

2 comments:

  1. wow! that looks like a MISERABLE burn! but the fill-in looks great!

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  2. Holy cow, Em! Ouch. Good job on that yard. I'm impressed.

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