Since Jensson and Jacob needed a family project to complete their Family Life Merit Badge, I thought I would find one I needed help with. I "sold" it to the boys and for some reason they didn't even complain at my "project". If you knew you would be digging out the park strip, how many of you would jump for joy. Of course, I think the fact that it was all of us made it sound a little easier, but I can tell you after digging for hours, it was not. I was amazed at how hard these boys worked and yesterday we finished digging and loading gravel into the park strip next to the road.
Jacob took this candid video of us working. It is really typical of how we work. We all thought that Dad was leaving, because we were so hard to get along with, but he really did come back--with a pick ax because the dirt was just like cement.
It took us quite a few days, as we would work while the park strip was shady. After we finished digging out the dirt, we needed to fill up the space with gravel, which was in the back yard. Well, we tried shoveling gravel one day and decided that was just too hard. Jeff agreed and said he would move the gravel with a Bobcat. Boy, was that a lot easier. It only took about a weeks worth of work, but we waited for the Bobcat until now to finish the job. At least we can check another job off-- finished!
3 comments:
Holy cow, you guys actully did some work. You kids are amazing! keep it up!
That is awesome! I love that you documented a day in the life of a project at the Ostler's. We always need that! You boys are awesome! Keep up the hard work! If you get a second, and you may not with all the great projects you are up to, post some pictures of the after. We want to see what it ended up looking like!
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