Finished!—Signed, Supermom

On Thursday night, just at dark, I finished the back yard. This was supposed to be an intensive weekend project that Christian and I would do over spring break. Instead, it rained for four weeks, and when we finally got a four-day stretch of clear weather, I just had to dig in and do it myself. Hence earning the label: “supermom.”

Well, I should qualify. I sort of did it myself. Actually, my uncle Jerome came over and spent most of two days with me. And Christian took 2 hours of it on Wednesday night so I could go lead choir practice. :)

The project involved a garden tiller, a walk-behind trencher (now THAT is a serious piece of machinery…good thing I have an uncle who can figure out and fix any piece of machinery ever invented!), 250 feet of buried corrugated pipe, a roller, an old, borrowed riding mower (which Uncle Jerome also tuned up), and a spreader full of grass seed—not to mention a lot of dug dirt and aching shoulder muscles.

My kids didn’t get much attention last week, and I did virtually zero writing of any kind. But the project is done, and we got two days of nice, gentle rain on it as soon as we finished.

And hopefully, six weeks from now, we’ll have a nice smooth back yard, without potholes or a swamp in the middle.