Clearing the Lot

This is the after picture. It may not look great, but keep looking, you'll find, it really is great.
This is the before, note how tall those weeds are, there was a solid .22 acres of that.

Matthew, using the prehistoric tool that you will learn about further down.
Greg, looking high class. Hehe, this picture haunts him. Let's be honest, he probably doesn't use machines like this too often. The safety glasses really were necessary though, stuff flying like crazy.


Underneath this pile of wood is a literal trench. What's it doing on our lot, we have no clue. Our guess is one of the neighbors had really rotten kids.

Ok, on Saturday morning we rented a weed whacker and joined Greg's dad and little brother with the lawn mower and a prehistoric tool, a weed hacker. Different than a weed whacker. This tool is like ones you may have heard of in the Book of Mormon, or the Bible. To use this tool you swing with full force at a weed. It may cut the weed down if used correctly, but if used incorrectly it may just beat the weeds down, bending them so that when you are finished swinging the same weed is in the same condition as before the swing. This proves to be a very slow and frustrating process. Thank goodness for modern inventions like the gas weed whacker and lawn mower. Oh and the rake, which I mostly used, as well as the prehistoric tool, the weed hacker. Though, as you can see I used the weed whacker as well. It took the 4 of us 2 hours to complete this job. Oh yeah, and there was a breeding farm of grasshoppers in there. Thanks dad, for teaching me how to work, otherwise I would have expired on August 22nd 2009.