fun with a tiller

The semester is almost over and I can almost see having free time again. We’re looking forward to what I’ve started thinking of as ‘house season’.

We’ve been looking around, remembering where we left off back in December and finding new things to add to our list of things that we need to accomplish. With a desire to get started but still not able to really put any projects in motion, we spent the weekend spring cleaning the house and the yard.

Watering the fresh dirt and new grass.

We tilled up part of the back yard. This area, maybe 15′x30′, was an awful dog pen when we got the house. It was sectioned off by pieces of tall chainlink fence and had no gate. The dirt was bare and compacted and stank like dog and piss. This was two summers ago. Last summer, the smell was still in the dirt and we didn’t really use that section of the yard. Now, though, that corner is freshly turned and seeded and should be beautiful and green in a few weeks.

the beast

We used a borrowed tiller that is a beast. It is self-propelled and ridiculously strong. This tiller instantly became one of my favorite tools.