Last week, Matt bought a rototiller to help us landscape the backyard. The day after he bought it, we started our backyard landscape project! After taking down the three big trees in early April, and having someone come cut up the wood and haul it out of our backyard, we now need to still deal with the stumps, grade the lawn flat, and reseed. So, step one is to use the rototiller to grade the yard level as well as remove the many many roots that are all over the yard. The tiller does a pretty good job of exposing the roots enough for Matt to cut them with an axe and get them out. This past weekend, we worked on the yard for nine hours and got quite a bit done! Of course, it has rained all week thwarting our plans to continue, but this weekend promises to be sunny and warm so we are hoping to get so much more done. We have a nice routine down now of Matt using the rototiller to break up the dirt, I shovel the dirt and haul it into a dirt pile on the lower part of the yard, Matt digs up the huge roots and gets them out of the way, and repeat.
The yard before any work was done. And Levi doing his best Sound of Music impression.
Everyone was excited about Daddy's new tool.
The biggest stump we have to remove, it is huge. Matt tried a method of burning the stump using charcoal briquettes. It worked fairly well, until we realized it was no longer burning season and we can't burn until October.
Here is one of the massive roots that we dug up and got rid of. Roots of this size are everywhere in the yard!
At one point during digging, Matt found this lizard that the kids immediately loved!
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