After waiting by your computers for days, you'll be pleased to know that the snake pit is finito!! A few words to describe our feat? Strength, bravery, a certain good-lookingness, stamina... and you'll NEVER believe what we found! Our fascinating journey in photos:
BEFORE
SO wishing we could just throw a match in
Brayden building quick truck walls
After the first trip of hauling branches on a tarp to the truck out front, we wisely opted to take apart the fence and bring the truck to the pile
Temperate skies
My job was compression--think less glamourous version of grape squishing
One of FOUR enormous (and expertly compacted) loads to the dump
The muscle, ready for load #2
(That is one hunk of man you see there. I'm talking serious strength.)
Enter day 2, Memorial Day and our 14th Anniversary!
The lawn was soft from major weekend rain, so we hauled it to the truck to up our workout
Look, the ground!! We're celebrating on the inside.And now for the shocking discoveries:
NO dead animals
NO snakeageddon
A gaggle of relatively aggressive snails
A whole lotta creepy crawlies (shudder)
A heavy, off-white ping pong ball that couldn't possibly have been a snake egg
AND...300 newly discovered square feet of our backyard! Wahoo!
AFTER
We. are. awesome.
5 comments:
love it! nothing like the satisfaction of seeing what some hard work can produce. so how long had that pile been building up?
Was it really a snake's egg? Maybe the first day of work scared everyone off to make way for the second day, even those pesky small children.
You are awesome!! Next year just let us know when you are trimming trees and you can borrow the truck right away. No more scary piles!
Yes! You. ARE! AWESOME!!
What a great project. Your older kids will always remember it. And what a romantic way to spend your anniversary! ;)
Happy 14 years! I am so glad you guys chose each other--you are good together!
Impressive, and very nicely documented, Tracy. Yea, you're done! Except homeowners are never truly "done" with projects, are they?
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