Getting closer to the end of a project...

There are any number of ways to make the landscape ready for seed! While Spouse was running around the countryside looking for a drag to pull behind the lawn tractor, Son One was being creative -- dragging two old tires behind his four-wheeler was as effective (if not more so) at smoothing out the lumps.

The day before, however, Spouse had once again chopped through the phone wires. Luckily, he cut through some that had the week before been replaced by our friendly local telephone cable guy. I was glad that they had left some dead wires behind for him to chop up, lest he start in on the live ones!!

So the shed that was buried has now been excavated from the tundra, and the last steps are taking place before the seeding. There has been a lot of dirt moved, a lot of hours spent, and a lot of equipmenet moved in and out of the yard over the past several weeks since this project began. It's a good thing we live in a farming community where there are all sorts of toys for grown boys to find and play with. The massive dig has produced no valuable artifacts (unless you consider old phone lines and electrical cables 'artifacts'), but it has produced a shed which will be free from the onslaught of spring thaw streams next year.

Now, on to the next project. Maybe the construction of the 30 foot lighthouse I've been hinting at for years won't seem like such a big challenge after this last project...