Since there is not any work to be down down there, we started on 1/2 of the front yard. Saturday morning started at 7:00 as I got up and headed to buy some plants for out front. While in Rivergate I picked up our two new workers that we are trying out. TJ is 18 and the son of one of my friends girlfriends. Jase is one of our friends Nephews and he is 13 or 14 (I can't remember which). Both were excited to have the opportunity to come up here and make some money working.
Rod and I had actually started on Friday night dragging all the limbs up to two stumps to start a fire. He started this fire on Friday night around 6 and it actually burned until Monday morning.
On Saturday it was all hands on deck working (with the exception of Tina who went to a friends house and chose not to come home until after all the work was complete)
Jase and Tori spent most of their time raking the rocks up and hauling them out of the yard, then they raked the topsoil, seeded the grass, and spread the nasty, wet, moldy straw... Jase said that raking rocks was the strangest thing he has ever been asked to do.
We have been saving stones and bringing them up to the house for a year now. Some of the have been small enough for the little tractor and some of them required the backhoe. TJ and Rod worked on sidewalk. It took a long time to figure out the placement of the stones, get them level and spread the topsoil (that was wet, clumpy, and heavy)
In between all of this help, I was inside cooking lunch. One of the perks of working up here is I almost always feed the help :-) Nicole, a family friend that Tori was babysitting, was willing to come inside with me to help me cut up homemade french fries. Then we patted out some burgers and got ready to grill. Abby decided that she would sneak upstairs and snag a burger from the counter.. luckily she only got 1!!!!
After lunch the rain came for a little bit but it was not too much were we couldn't finish. In the end we got the sidewalk done, the part of the yard from the front porch around to the side steps seeded and straw put down, and my plants planted in front of the house. Make me feel much better about the look of the front of the house.
We will work over the next week or two to finish up the rest of the front, then side and the back. Jase and TJ were really excellent helpers. I am sure if either of them want to earn extra money, Rod would be glad to have either of them back up here to help out.
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