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As you can tell from my lack of blog activity, this was another jam packed weekend. I think right now (Sunday night) is the first time I’ve cracked open my computer.

Saturday was a bit crazy, with a garage sale, 3 soccer games and more yard work in all the time that was left during the day. Huge thanks to the Camerons and the Aldersons and everyone else who ran that garage sale for us (to raise money for Christian and Emma’s school trip) while we ran around to the various soccer games.

Once we were done with that, I ran over to Home Depot to rent a tiller and bust up all the dirt in the backyard as step two in the process we started last weekend of getting more grass in the backyard. It was a bit tougher than I thought for a few reasons. Not only was the dirt in a lot of places really solid and hard, there were also two spots where we recently pulled up trees that had been there for a long time, and there were thick roots everywhere (along with a fair amount of big rocks) which would interfere with the tilling process.

I’d post pictures, but it’s not that different that the last ones I posted, other than everything is smoothed out and more even now. That’s one thing that’s a bit frustrating since after a lot of work you still just have a whole lot of dirt, just like when you started. Of course the dirt is in a lot better shape for planting, but still.

While that wasn’t the end of the draining aspects of this weekend, I think that’s all I’m going to post about tonight. Thanks again to everyone who helped out.