One Big Pile

 OF ROCKS -
One week we don't have a yard and then in one day the landscape company we hired rolls and by evening we have a yard.  We are excited, grateful and in awe.  We didn't do any of it, except . . . . .
for all of the rocks in the backyard.  And its a lot of them.

We wanted our boys to have to work.  Work grows good boys.  I, I know it sounds crazy, but I was against having a landscaper come in because I wanted to boys to work hard, and see the fruits of their labors. Dave was a little more "this is so great to live in Arizona where our yard is tiny,  takes very little maintenance and is mostly covered in rocks" minded.  Since he would be the one doing all the work, he won.  But we both agreed.  Boys and Dads will shovel rocks.

And man was it one big pile.
This picture is only half of the pile.  We had a tractor to at least get the rocks into the wheelbarrows part of the way but it took all day.  From 6 am. until 8 pm.  Our boys stepped up.  They were steady workers most of the day!  We were very grateful when the missionaries came at the end and helped lift stir our spirits and propel us for the last hour or so.

We now have a lawn small enough we are thinking of selling the power mower and buying a manual powered one!




Most of you have not yet been to see our desert oasis.  Come on down.  See how pretty the rocks grow :)

 

Seth driving the tractor - video!