{"id":47447,"date":"2014-11-09T09:44:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T16:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/09\/kitchen-project-day-3.html"},"modified":"2014-11-12T10:23:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T17:23:56","slug":"kitchen-project-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/09\/kitchen-project-day-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Project – Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

The little excavator proving too small for the task, we got in a backhoe. Except that it was too heavy to go up the front lawn at the angle it needed to, not at all helped by the rain the previous evening (sigh).<\/p>\n

So instead, they took it up through the front flower bed (after removing some roses and salvaging the bricks lining the edge of the grass). Problem "solved," though my front lawn is looking more and more like No Man's Land. <\/p>\n

That does raise some interesting possibilities regarding what both the front and side yards should look like when all is said and done. Do we really want to replant grass? Alternately, if we don't, what does that mean for future projects that may involve moving heavy machinery around the house?<\/p>\n

(Reminds self to contact lawn people to tell them we don't need them to come out any more this year.)<\/p>\n

This was Saturday — they're going to also be working Sunday, as the weather is about to take a sudden and unfortunate turn for the worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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