We were really lucky a few weeks ago that our neighbor showed up with his industrial tiller and tilled the entire wooded side yard for us. This is the same space that Nick ran the skidder through last year and has been slowly chipping away at some trees but it was still quite a mess. Now it is GORGEOUS! Here is a shot of the tilled pathway that we have now seeded with grass seed:
The hardest part was that apparently under all that brush was approximately one million rocks! After all was tilled up we raked, tossed rock and seeded with the rocks going into the creek bed and pond we dug last year. Just to give you an idea of how many rocks we are talking about:
Our backs are still sore!
Nick made a super cook rock stack in the pond:
This past weekend was the last weekend for backyard burning so we FINALLY got the remains of the males and fir we fell last year cleaned up. Our brush piles went from three to just one of firewood to finish splitting and stacking. I don't have a shot of it's current state but here you can get the idea:
Needless to say the neighbors are thrilled with our spring cleaning! Did I mention our sore backs?
Not to worry, it is not all work and no play. Truck did an excellent job of supervising whole working on his tan:
Gunnar tested out his birthday swing:
And helped with the kitchen organization:
Still on the list: chicken slaughter, new compost bin, berm planting.....PLENTY!
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