The yard looks and smells awesome

Sometime in the 1930s, Granddaddy McCauley was caught on film plowing the garden, which was a few plots away from our house.

On Saturday, the little granddaughter he called Susabella took a slightly more-advanced plow to the tough dirt around the house. She was loosening it up so we could plant grass everywhere.

Miked took a turn with the plow, too. Grandpa Teddy said it was because he just likes to play with big machines.

The reason for the plowing and planting: Landscapers came in and removed the silt fence and lots of junk.

Mom and Dad hired them, too, and they cleared everything in their side hedge also. Now, Mom and Dad have work to do, too: replanting and stuff.

This was overgrown and junky because it was outside the silt fence. But they cleaned it and now it is seeded for grass. It smells so good out there because the hay is wet a lot because Team D waters it. But it really smells good because of the ...

CEDAR CHIPS. To give this grove of trees a little extra protection the landscapers covered the area with cedar chips. Emily had them line the cedar-chip place with old pieces of a fence that one of my uncles built before our oldest sister's wedding 23 years ago.

The goofballs and I hung out in the driveway when most of this was going on. Unfortunately, they don't have a vat for Matt.

So nice. And Miked, as always, did a ton of work inside on the wiring and stuff. He is NOT my man-crush, but he is pretty cool. He took time out to remove the hard drive from Mom and Dad's old PC, and Mom and I totally installed it in a little cover so they can get their files off it. Emily is no slouch either. The oldest of the goofballs wanted to take Claren out today so she did, while I played Pokemon with goof 2. Claren pooped, and picking it up was beyond goof 1's ability. But Emily did.