excavation elation

Last weekend I rented a mini back-hoe so we could excavate our backyard in anticipation of a walkway and patio.... not to mention way more garden for growing fresh food. Since we don't have access to the backyard from our house, we all walk this path a lot and it gets pretty muddy at times.

I think I have harboured a latent desire to operate heavy machinery all my life. Who knew? Though some people giggled when I said I thought I just might figure out how to run the backhoe myself, a few of you believed in me. I wouldn't say I mastered it, but I sure did get a lot of dirt moved around the yard before our more masterful friend Adam came over to finish the job. (Thanks, Adam! And thanks to that handy youtube instructional video... you know, you can learn just about anything on youtube.)

In the end, I said to Tim and my dad that I think it was worth the rental cost just for the fun of learning something new and actually moving all that dirt around our backyard, even if we hadn't needed to get the job done! Some people go skydiving. Some go on cruises. I think I might just prefer excavation. Fun, fun, fun.



I thought Tim was just taking pictures of me having all the fun (sorry, boys) but it turns out he actually caught some of my adventure on video. Enjoy! Remember, no giggling. I'm still a newbie.