Last weekend we bought this old-style pool (they're the best - no holes!), and I found that it made a really good playpen for Matthew. We threw him in there with some toys and he was happy for an hour.
I taught Haley how to trim the bushes. They were in pretty bad shape, because apparently I didn't feel like doing it last fall.
I have no idea what the boys were doing here, but they were busy with something in between their visits to the neighbor (to drive him nuts). They had poor Mr. Cory taking them for bike rides down the street, checking in the back yard for his dog (they didn't believe him that his dog died, so they went to see for themselves), and even had him sword fighting for awhile. He's such a good sport!
I decided to do my best to embarrass my husband, so I had him pull out the shop vac and I proceeded to vacuum rocks for 2 1/2 hours. Mind you, I did not think it would take that long, but I had to turn over every dumb rock to vacuum out the leaves. We have much more river rock than I had figured. About half way through I didn't want to do it anymore, but I kept on going. Every part of me ached, especially my fingers because I kept smashing them in between rocks. But we have clean rock beds now, and I even sucked up about 10 spider egg sacks. The boys thought they were pretty cool. Ben went inside because he thought all the neighbors would think I was crazy, out there vacuuming rocks. I'm just glad it's done!
Happy yard work, everyone!
