Yesterday afternoon we had 12 tons of crushed limestone delivered to our house. We thought we could just have it cover half the driveway so Lola could still park her car but when the guy dumped it out it covered the whole drive way! Mike had gotten the 4 wheeler from Paul's house and bought a trailer for it to haul the dirt to the backyard. He put it together so it was ready when the dirt arrived. He made two trips to the back and on the 3rd trip he filled it up a little too much and the trailer broke. It was a HUGE bummer! They had to resort to wheel barrels! Our neighbor Shawn helped and the kids got to even help out. They LOVED playing in the sand! Even Anna's brother Jack came over to help for a little bit. They heard we were building a batting cage so I'm sure he came to help so he could use it! :-) We had to stop around 4:30 so we could get ready for Nicholas' T-ball game. But when we got back our other neighbor Rob was filling up his wheel barrel and moving dirt so we all got out of the truck and went back to work. We were able to cover the whole area with one layer and than Mike is going to rent a machine to tap it all down. We will than put another layer of dirt on it today. It looks pretty good! Plus we have another beautiful day to work outside! Here are a few pics!
The kids helping out with the dirt pile! It was HUGE!
They liked to be at the top!
Picture of the batting cage area with the first layer.
After picture of the pile of dirt.
Checked UPS and the cage and pitching machine is in Eagan! I called to see if we could go pick it up and we couldn't. They are not open. :-( We will have to wait until Monday...Stay tuned for finished pics!
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