(wo)Manly Work

I was so productive this Saturday! Yay me! I got up early to spend some time with my new brother and then headed home for some yard work. My baby, Sam, has been a bad boy since we moved. He was so used to running wild in the country, that he had to find things to occupy his time when I moved him to town. He has decided to dig lots of little holes around the yard. Steph (roommie) HATES that. So, I bought a bunch of top soil and filled in the holes. Fun times! Also, Steph thinks that Sam has been chewing on the air conditioner wires (I'm not convinced), so I'm going to put a little fence around the concrete slab.

Here's a small example of Sam's handy work. At this point, I've actually started digging so I could smooth out the holes. What you CAN'T see is the tons of tiny holes along the house to the right of the air conditioner. Sigh.

While I was digging up, smoothing out and filling holes with dirt, I put Abi (Steph's daughter) to work. The yard is HUGE and covered with sticks. I had her pick up all the sticks and put them in the burn pile. I was excited about burning stuff. I had never done it before. I talked to my dad before hand so I would know the proper way to burn. He told me to have a water hose nearby, to stay away from the house and fence, and to start with a small burn pile. Sounds easy enough, right? Hehe. Well, Steph already had a huge pile of stuff to burn and when I tried to make a small pile...the stuff didn't want to move. So, I decided to go for it. I put a match to the dry brush like stuff and OMG! that fire started blazing!! We were kinda scared at first. I watered down the grass around the burn pile in hopes that the fire wouldn't spread. =) Anyhoo, I was amazed at how quickly that pile burned down.



This is after the pile had burned down a bit. I would have gotten a pic of the huge blaze, but I was too busy trying not to burn the whole yard!!

So, that was my weekend of (wo)manly work! It wasn't bad and I felt good when the day was over. Next on the agenda...find some fencing to put around the air conditioner.