It’s all in how you look at it…

Right now I’d prefer to look at it from the back yard.

Today was an excellent progress day. Troy and his gang got down to business. At 7 a.m. Troy arrived and whisked off the debris-filled trailer to the dump. Bye bye Wally! Next, Chad the excavator arrived. We chatted a moment before I darted off to work–and what a work day it was!

About noontime I was interrupted midst hair pulling with a few questions and comments from Troy. First, they dug down to the water line and it looked gross and begging for replacement. There was also a needed conversation about the dirt removal. I went by the house and found huge holes and trenches appearing. My side yard looked like swiss cheese. That said, there was a very wise, attentive site supervisor: the excavator’s border collie. What a beautiful dog with ice/denim blue eyes.

So after checking in, it was back to work for more hair pulling. At day’s end there was another phone message from Troy hurrying me home. After 5:30 p.m. I gave up with the day’s project and came home to find the holes looking much more organized and Troy about to reconnect a brand new water line. In front of the house was a hulking pile of dirt with the bulldozer perched atop. Beyond the holes stood the neighbor’s entire family looking on. I am SO glad I have patient neighbors–it’s really a mess out there right now!

While the front is quite a mess, I think I’ll go look out the back window at my newly planted fruit trees in the backyard. Looking at it from that angle makes me feel better.