did i mention?

...that all of the rocks you see in the photos were dug out of the mound in the backyard? We still have enough to line a flower bed, as well as widen the path in the front, and maybe put some under the little wooden bench. I guess they were lining the pond area, and PO just covered them with dirt. The big boulder one was part of the reason it was a mound later--it wasn't buried very deep, so they just piled dirt on top of it.

In other news, I'm now the new editor of the neighborhood newsletter. This is what happens when you point out typos in the last newsletter, I think. I did find out that I don't have to distribute it, just get it put together and sent to the printer each month. Whew!

sod off!

Okay, not really. Actually, our "dig out the big mound in the back yard" project turned into a "let's order a pallet of sod for the backyard" project early this week. Check out the photos below! We haven't gotten the whole area cleaned up yet, but we did get all of the sod down.

Aren't there people you can hire for this stuff? Sigh.

the big dig

We finally started excavating the big mound of dirt in the middle of the backyard. There used to be a pond there, and we'd found a ton of flagstone type rocks on the surface of the mound when we first moved in. We want to put a patio in sometime soon, so we've got to get this big hill out of the middle of the yard!

Before we begin.

The first big rock find of the afternoon.

Big rock!

Lots of tiny rocks make for fun digging. :(

More flagstones.

And a few large rocks.

We worked from around 6-8:30pm last night.

This was the view from the house this morning. Digging will resume tonight...