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The end of the weekend is here and our backyard is officially done. Sort of.

Friday Sarah began the arduous task of moving the rolled up grass out of the yard. We finished that on Saturday morning. Have you any idea how much grass a 15′ X 30′ yard can contain? About 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older….

Anyway, once the grass was gone it was off to the rental place for a tiller. An hour and a half, and three good passes, and the hard lumpy ground was soft, tilled-up goodness. Still lumpy though. We returned the tiller and picked up a landscaping rake to help get the lumps out and (hopefully) make the water run away from the house and towards the flower bed at the back of the yard. Visually speaking, it looks like we succeeded.

After 8 hours of solid work yesterday, today went pretty smoothly. We finished raking and shoveling and re-raking till the lumps were gone and the grade looked good. Another trip to the Rental Center and I came back with the yard roller - filled with water it’s a 250 lbs. compacting tool of the gods.

A couple of passes with the roller showed us a few spots that needed some work - and some dirt - but within about an hour or so, presto! One even yard. I must say, it looks pretty good.

Since we are suppose to get some rain over the next couple of days we’ve decided to hold off on seeding. We figured the rain will show us if our grading job worked. If not, we can fix it and seed next weekend.