Watch us be all Farm-y

So, we had much bulldozing done at Rowe acres this past week and it basically made the yard look like a big, beautiful dirt pile. It will be very awesome when the grass ever comes up, but since the temperatures are in the low 70s and dropping into the high 30s at night, we are not overly confident in the germination process.

So, to prevent my beautiful, expensive, newly turned dirt from washing down the hill and into the road, we rented some heavy equipment this week and did some actual manual labor. I will admit that I (Jenni) kind of got out of some of it by having to go to work. The equipment arrived at about 4:30 pm on a Friday and I leave for work at about 5:30 pm, so I was just the photographer at this swanky soiree. I did my time later in the week by clearing limbs and getting a raging case of poison ivy.

The very best part of this whole thing was the training of Julia to throw the hay into the bucket thingy-- ( I dont know what this red thing is called, nor do i know what that bucket thing is called. I am no farmer. I DO know that this is not really "farm equipment" , so no farmers need call me out on this.)

Anyway, as Jackson is too short to throw the hay into the bucket and the hose thing was way too much for her to handle, Julia was called on to be the 'hay loader'.

She had a look of horror at the thought of it at first, but she quickly decided that it was much easier than being the 'hay shooter'. As you can see, she is inappropriately dressed but seemed to rather enjoy herself.
I complimented her hay throwing prowess at one point and got something to the effect of, "I have many hidden skills that you know nothing about" as a retort.

Jackson on the other hand was called on to be the 'grass seed flinger'. He was less than thrilled with this--especially with the lure of loud and unwieldy heavy equipment that could possibly remove your hand looming so near. He did a tremendous job though and (one day) when we have a lush and gorgeous lawn, we will owe it all to his skillful seed throwing. Definitely.