Hauling Dirt

Five great big piles of dirt in our yard and we've been busy in this beautiful weather shoveling them by hand every chance we get. I put in another two hours tonight. I'm exhausted but feel like I'm getting something accomplished.

We load it into the wheelbarrow then fill in the low land that surrounds our yard. The lower land is filled with garbage, logs, stumps and pushed over trees. We even found a kid's Fisher Price bicycle with training wheels back there. Never would have seen it if wifey wasn't picking the garbage out of there. She put a free sign on it and put it out by the road. Within two minutes someone picked it up. I hope it makes some kid very happy this summer.

Anyway I try to put in at least two hours worth of dirt when I can because you can see the difference. It's fun to watch the land grow and the logs to disappear. I worked up to 7:30 tonight. The mosquitoes came out and it was getting darker so I called it a night.

I hear the peepers now. They came out on Thursday night. It was the exact same night the mosquitoes came out for the first time. I figured the frogs had to be waiting for their food to come out before they would.

We've grown more veggie plants but my first batch of lettuce isn't going to make it. It grew too tall too quickly and is beginning to die. We've started other lettuce, bell peppers and few other things. The tomatoes we started are doing great.

That's all for tonight. I've posted a picture of the piles of dirt covered with layers of grass and golden rod from who knows how many years they have sat in this yard.