Oh, my wonderful husband!

Yesterday, Will, his friend, Dallan, and I watched a side dump truck pull up in front of our house and dump an entire load of large rocks onto my front yard. It was Bill driving the truck! Then, Bill drove off; only to return a little later with a trailer full of equipment behind his regular work truck. Today, Bill spent the entire day shuffling and manipulating those rocks into window wells for the kids' windows and the laundry room. The extra rocks he took to the back yard and began the back yard remodel as well.

Watching Bill operate the equipment is simply amazing! It seems as if the machine becomes an extension of his own arm! There is a finesse there that makes it entertaining to watch. I watched him casually pick up huge boulders and inspect them from all angles, just to fling them aside to choose another, more promising one.

Bill had to move the two small fruit trees in the back yard in order to work back there. He doesn't think they will survive the move. He didn't think he got enough of the root ball, and it is the wrong time of year to move trees. Well, if they don't make it, we'll just have to get new ones. Maybe a pear instead of the apple, but definitely another nectarine! Fresh homegrown nectarines are amazing!

The kids (especially Helena) are thrilled with the window wells. SO AM I! Instead of ugly metal, they will each have their own rock garden to tend. Hopefully next week I will be able to help the kids pick out and plant their gardens to keep the soil around the rocks from eroding. I expect that Helena will make her garden bloom. I'm not as confident with Will, but time will tell.