Rocks!

Whoever built our house was a WISE MAN, as we are built upon lots and lots of rocks.  Digging in our yard is a terrible experience!  We have literally removed hundreds of gallons of rocks from our garden and yard.

Tyler had the great idea to save $200 and remove the leftover dirt from our walkout on our own.  Except it wasn't dirt, it was rocks.  And there was a LOT of it.

Oh, the hours that the kids and I spent time outside pulling rocks off the top of the pile.  Here's some of them.  They are now landscaping someone's pond in our town and the parking strip at another house one county over.  This is before the pile got very big.  It filled up a trailer TWICE.  And that does not count the dozens of gallons that we dumped in the creek.

After we did what we could by hand, Tyler borrowed our good neighbor's tractor and had some fun.  My dad spent a LOT of time working with him, and let's just say that our creek banks are a lot more reinforced now.

After that it only took a couple more hours of all 7 of us able-bodied people working together to finish up the extra stuff.  Now there is just grading left to do.  Next time, I think we'll spend that $200.