Saturday, November 08, 2008
Nothing runs like a Deere...
After talking about it for 20+ years, we are finally doing some regrading in our back yard to allow some further projects in the spring time. It is fairly straightforward, just taking the dirt from the high side and moving it to the low side. Problem is that it is a lot of dirt. And rocks. And some big rocks. And then more rocks. We may not have much, but we sure do have lots of rocks.

Anyhow, I am accomplishing all of this digging as the result of a friend who, while he is away hunting, was nice enough to leave his John Deere tractor/backhoe at my house. I have some really nice friends. While I'm sure this barely qualifies as a "Tractor" by VDH standards, it is more than enough for my puny little lot. And it IS a JD. It has been quite a few years since I ran a machine like this, and I was never any kind of pro at it. I sort of had forgotten just how much finesse it takes to work one of these things. Finesse that I don't really have in great amounts, apparently. After working for a few hours on Tuesday, all I managed to get done was to make the yard look like we had been shelled by enemy artillery. But I did have fun, burned some diesel fuel, and increased my carbon footprint. I managed to do better as the week wore on, after a change in digging strategy and a bit more practice.

I am waiting to come home and find Mrs. A tooling around the yard on the tractor. For some reason she seems to stay far away when I am running it. I wonder why that is?
thus voiced The A, Mistah @ 7:04 PM
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