Backyard Mayhem!

Water crew!

Don't ask :)

Insane amount of dead growth, that's only half a load! Not even that!~

Grapefruit war! Hey, as long as it get's in the trailer, we're still working! :)

Strategic Grapefruit master

Saturday morning 10:00 am

Lots of sticks! Quite a fire hazard if you ask me.

Most of the wood was so brittle we could just step on it or pull hard and it would just come off.

Today we herded the family then tackled the bacyard. It really needed to be done; the trees were getting bushy, the bushes were growing in weird directions, and as you can quite see, most of the bushes were half dead or dying, all because of a tremedous frost we had early January this year. It killed all our plants and they never grew back. :( So sad, it was really quite pretty. So we took them all out. It was quite a job. It took a couple solid hours just to destroy the backyard, then a couple others to clean it up. We took two trips to the dump. I was surprised, there was so much to dump but they stomped on it really good to fit it all in. It's a good experience. I think i wrote about one other time we did this as a family in my journal when i was like, 8. I was so frusterated and didn't want to work. I'm pretty sure I drew a greusome picture below it showing us struggling to haul sticks and branches, with sweat poring off our faces and scratches all over us. :) So funny, i'll have to look that page up again. :) Luckly, now that i'm a "bit" taller and stronger i can help a lot more. :) Goes by faster, although i do believe while Nate was on the roof throwing fruit at us, i was doing his part. :) I'll make him his fair share. Actually, we're still not done. I'm writing this inbetween a trip to the dump. Did you know AC is a blessing from a divine being? So hot outside. Hey, work is good for the soul! If that's true, then i'm a saint! :)