The weekend is finally over

It has been a long weekend….Holiday beside. Hubby came home with a bulldozer on Friday afternoon. Wonderful to work for people who will allow you to borrow their stuff. We had a brush pile that the road has been adding to for about 15 years and it was time for it to go. TVs, car parts, swing sets, wood, furniture….you get the idea, we had a wooded area and they had shit they wanted to get rid of…..they thought perfect match…not anymore. So he had our weekend planned. You know me….before pictures were thought of part of the way through  the project… but here would be a few of the during……

I haven’t a clue what might be found in this pile of crap.

This pile either. Lots and lots of years and years of disposal of everything. Can you say mosquitoes?

The Boy is running the bulldozer, he got quite good at it. He has run some equipment but this was the first bulldozer.

I thought this area was safe, I was wrong. It seems most of these trees make hubby nervous when the wind gets up. So a good  share had to go.

Same with these trees, same general area, just more of them.

Remember the hole, burned what we could and covered it up with dirt. Impressive, huh?

Fewer trees. Opens the place up nicely. Though I am going to miss the shade cover.

My swing, that is laying down on the ground, is going in that shady area. The yard looks huge again.

Remember 400 hundred million years ago when hubby made me this nice little square flower bed in the center of the driveway? It had turned in to my FIL’s burn pit…..Not anymore. That baby was hand filled with dirt hauled from this little yard. Yeppers, I had a shovel in my hands most of the weekend.

Those trees that went away, well Little Miss found a use for the notches that were made before they were pulled down. Cute, huh?

See swing back up and it was enjoyed last night.

This is the future site of the little waterfall and pond we want. I think a waterfall off that big rock will look nice. Needless to say there is still tons of work to be done to it, but there is only so much you can do with a huge bulldozer. Now comes the hand work….Pick, ax, shovel, back breaking labor.

See I can even enjoy the view from the swing. I plan on some flowers, my birdbath, loads of shit.  The Boy is looking forward to the fish being added, even though I told him bow fishing would strictly be prohibited.

(Ignore the tractor in the background, we have discovered it is waaay too small to accomplish the dirt moving we now require.)

We still have a ton of work to do, but that pile of garbage is mostly gone. We had to leave some because we didn’t want the woods that separate us from our neighbor on that side gone, so we have a bit of hand work to do. It is not that we don’t like him, but we just don’t want him to see everything we do over here. There are a few saplings in the wooded area I would like to do away with, but a chainsaw will work just fine for that. And some of the vines need to go. And there is a lot of leveling and dirt  moving yet to be done. I think I have more than enough to do to keep me busy this summer. There were quite a few snakes run out and I am giving them a wide area of escape before  dig in to much.

So what do you think? I worked my tail off, Hubby and The Boy had big equipment to use, all mine was arms, back, and legs. I am surprised that  I am able to move. But in the end it will be more than worth it.

Come back tomorrow, I had an epiphany this weekend and I will you all about  it. Until next time………….

HAVE A GREAT DAY AND THANKS FOR VISITING!!!!!!!!!!