It's Here!

Today we brought home the newest member to our family, our backhoe. After driving it 2 1/2 hours to our house, my husband went right to work. His plan for today was to dig up some tree stumps in our backyard, shouldn't be a big deal right? Well, he picked the wrong day to do anything in our backyard, with our wonky weather our whole backyard is very damp and soft. He didn't have any trouble at first, he was just taking it slow because he was still learning how this particular backhoe operates. After he started getting a audience, that's when things went south. A little background about our neighborhood, when we are outside every one of our neighbors join us in our yard, garage, driveway, deck, pretty much anywhere we are. So today my husband had a crowd of about ten people watching his every move. He dug a huge area around the stump because it was a huge stump and he was still trying to get things figured out. Between the soft soil and his lack of experience, he got hung up. Then on top of trying to figure out a way to get the backhoe out, all of the neighbors had an idea. Some thought he could use a truck to pull out a 13,000 lb backhoe, yeah right. Others just stood on watching my husband struggle. Finally one of our favorite neighbors offered a great idea, hook a chain onto the backhoe and the other end onto a tree. We finally got it out after about an hour of struggling. Now the backhoe is sitting on a firm piece of land in our backyard, and there is no more digging up of stumps until all of our soil firms. Below are some pictures I took of the whole ordeal. You'll have to excuse our neighbor's mangy garage in the background, it's where their dogs live.

When it first arrived at our house-

Our girls watching Daddy at work-

Working on the stump-

Hung up, if you look closely you can see that all four tires are off the ground-