Women Drivers

Grandpa Jackson surprised us several weeks ago when he called to see if it would be ok if he flew in that very night. We were thrilled of course and that was only the beginning of the fun! It was the last week of school for Allie, her first week of piano lessons, and time to get to work on our backyard but renting some serious equipment. Just in case you were wondering... bobcats are really fun to drive. Except for when they tip over. And stump grinders are very heavy but they get the job done. Jason had to work, a class and go to LA during the week so he ended up missing out on a lot of the fun.

Ok, here are a few before shots of the backyard. Well, this is after it was mostly destroyed by last years remodeling adventures but before Grandpa's visit:
We are taking down the apple tree in these shots.
The shot below is the wall that used to separate the backyard from the front and where the garden plot was:
This is of course a bobcat... on it's side.

And now our wonderful neighbors coming to the rescue... again.
It's all fun and games once everything is righted again.

The not very fun stump grinder working on the apple tree stump. Ugh that thing was a beast.

A casualty of the bobcat. No not the roll over accident, the yanking the old sprinkler pipe out of the ground and having a piece fly off and hit you in the face which made you lip swell up and turn black and blue and blood everywhere and you are afraid you broke some of your teeth accident. And sorry about the horrible close up- it doesn't even look that bad in this shot.
Our good friend Sam taking down the tree out front which means you longer have to worry about sap dropping onto your car.
And now for the tractor. Who knew my backyard was big enough to plow a field in?!
Each of the kids got the chance to drive the tractor all by themselves (they were NOT interested in riding in the bobcat- too scary). The tractor was really really exciting on the other hand.

Oh what an exciting future awaits our backyard!