Monday, May 10, 2010

Finished Project #9 THE BIG ONE!

On my list of backyard projects was getting rid of this:
I'm sure you can understand why I saved it till the last.
One day I decided to finally conquer it. I spent an hour clearing this much . . .
and I still had this much to go:
I decided to call in reinforcements. The aunts and uncles came with the cousins and children. It only took about an hour to clear the big stuff, then another hour + to cut away the sections that had molded themselves and grown into the fence.
We were left with huge piles. The grass had so much dirt on it that you couldn't see the grass.
Then there was the disposal of all the debris:
I got most of the dirt raked up and sprayed it down. It will look much better once the wind and rain clean things off a little more. But, for now, here are the results of our labor. Pretty great if you ask me!
During our work we found only a few spiders, lots of dust and dirt, several wires, rotted pieces of wood, muscles we'd forgotten we had and a nice cement block path along the fence no one even knew existed.
THANK YOU FAMILY!!!

5 comments:

Lara said...

Wow! It looks great! Doesn't it feel so good to see the results of some hard work? I am glad you had so many people there to help you out.

Audrey Crisp said...

Great job! I'm glad my family was able to help
out!

Luke and Mary said...

you are superwoman. You accomplish so much all of the time! :) Glad you got some help!

Nat said...

It turned out great! looks much better. It was nice to be able to help out since you and Nick do sooo much. what will we do when you leave:(

Mark and Shauna said...

WOW! That's amazing! Awesome job!

AND... that is one FABULOUS cake... happy belated b-day Nick!