Today, we did a whole team outdoor project. Clint had a huge bush on a large dirt mound embedded with rocks in the center of the driveway. It reduced the ability of vehicles being able to turn around easily. Also the new van is quite a bit larger than the old one and needs more room to manuver. So we took it out.
The guys moved a large palm that was in there first to save it. Then we all went to work. We hacked, cut, sawed, dug, hauled dirt, and hauled rocks. It seemed like it would be necessary to have a bulldozer to get it out of there, but given enough of us and most of the day we did it.
All of us worked adults and older kids. The younger ones brought us water and iced tea.
As we slowly disassembled the bush and the mound we encountered many surprizes. We found many varieties of cockroaches, centipedes( like 6 inches long), a 12 inch long black snake, a very fast, huge rat (that we found out was a mom), a nest of baby rats, several ant nests, a terrantula, a christmas light, a lost spoon, vollyball, and a huge piece of concrete.
Usually it has rained everyday around noon, but it held off until we were completely done and had the tools picked up. Thanks Lord.
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| Last little bit of root falls |
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| Mr. C |
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| We did it! |
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| Katie moved a whole lot of dirt |
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| Russell helping his brother Nick with another project |
It took all of us with ropes and chains to act like horses and drag the mighty bush away. It probably weighed 300 or 400 lbs or more with lots of its roots hacked off.
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This was about 15 ft. high on a 2 foot mound of dirt.
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Tonight after Renees great soup we had a good time of devotion together.
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