This is a three-day weekend, so the kids and I figured it was a good time to get lots more done on the Compound (as we call the Paradise homes). Saturday morning Adam and I picked up a mid-sized bobcat and new chains for the chainsaw. When we got home, David, Anya and the kids were waiting to go to work. After the donut break, of course!
We cut down large bushes, dug up stumps, pulled out all the concrete curbing for the front driveway, graded the area around the pool for grass, pulled out more stumps, moved landscape lighting, edged garden beds, moved the wood pile, piled brush for the future wood chipper rental, cut more trees and brush, moved the kiln, pulled out some crumbling concrete and put the boat on blocks.
Did I fail to mention that Anya's family received their six little chicks one day old for the chicken coop? Earlier in the week, Anya had spread mulch in the future garden, gathered her seeds, and mulched the fruit trees (lemon and orange).
So what was the cost? Anya bashed her head on a tree limb, David bashed two knuckles, all adults had some stiff muscles and David, John and Adam all had big smiles from running a bobcat for eight hours! We broke the cap to my septic tank (will get it replaced this week.) Altogether it was a very productive weekend!
Hopefully, we plan to get the bobcat and a dumpster again for next weekend to take the debris away (for David and Adam) and a wood chipper to make mulch with the cut branches (Anya and me).
It feels like we work on a farm!!
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