Lord almighty! Thunder, lightning and heavy rains. Where did this pop from. Dennis and I looked at each other this noon and we both knew what the other was thinking. We are so glad we did what we did yesterday.
Several days ago we had a huge hydraulic auger attached to a skid steer loader here on Stauffer Avenue. I was amazed as to how it could dig holes in a heart beat. I was also amazed how it would empty the dirt by reversing the turn of the auger. Yesterday we realized how much dirt can be piled up from a finished hole that was about three feet by four feet by four feet deep. It looked like just a slick job. We didn’t realize how heavy that slick job of piling up would pack the dirt pile or how heavy it would be when we were ready to get rid of it. We had had four to five inches of dirt just seven days ago. There was wet dirt and wet clay.
The weight had not crossed our mind until we got our little $19.99 wheel barrow out of the potting shed with two shovels. We planned to put the dirt in the back garden that we had just cleared of flowers. One wheel barrow at a time the pile of packed soil and clay was dispersed. There were times it felt like I had gotten a teaspoon of packed dirt in my shovel. I filled and Dennis wheeled. Many, many breaks. Our breaks were long enough that Snuggles got in a fair amount of lap time between the two of us. Dennis and I got it done. We had taken our time and got it done without any harm to either of us. Just a good feeling of still being able to take care of what is needed on a day-to-day basis.
As dirty as we both were, we went to McDonald’s to get a bite of supper, knowing full well once we had taken the time to shower up we wouldn’t have had the heart to leave the house but rather sit down without the heart to get up.
When the thunderstorm broke this noon, we were both thankful we had gotten that dirt work done before the pile of dirt and clay would have been water soaked. As it turned out the thunderstorm did give us a day to take it easy.