Working in the Yard

We had a lot of fun trying to find the leak of the water main in our front yard. Merrill dug a trench about 8 feet long and 2 - 3 feet deep. He had to get some of those sweet plastic goloshes to wade in the muck. The ground was so saturated that every time he'd shovel out some mud, more water would pour into the hole from the sides. Well, after a day or so of digging we finally found the pipe and then took about 20 minutes to fix it. That night, we used our hot date time (with Mikayla at the babysitter's) to backfill the hole with the nasty clay mud.

On a happier note, we've been working on terracing the playset area in the back yard. Here's some photos of our action in that arena. This is a multiple weekend job, so we'll post some more photos after we've completed the job.