Work?

My dad thinks he put Rick to work for a few days redoing several of the driveways around the farm. What Dad doesn't know is that Rick was like a kid in the candy store and could have done this forever.


Before the excavator was delivered, Rick and Dad got the tractors ready for spreading the rock.


They had to put the loader on Dad's new tractor and the grader blade on a smaller one.


The kids were close by making sure everything was going according to plan. Reed was about to have a heart attack watching all the tractors everywhere. He could barely focus and just kept jabbering. It sounded something like this (imagine his little dutch sounding voice)..."Red trackor bwue trackor red trackor bwue trackor more trackor much trackor one two free four fives trackor!!!!"


This was a "Wook Mommy wook, more trackor. Reed drive trackor!!"


And as if things couldn't have gotten more exciting, the excavator arrived. This is when Rick's excitement really jumped a notch and he couldn't wait to get that thing off the trailer. Reed was pretty excited as well.


Millie got to hop in first and help Rick move it up the driveway.


Rick had plenty of supervisors around making sure everything was right.


Dad was hauling rock with his tractor.


Reed was a lot of help of course.


Millie got to help Rick take out a few stumps from 2 very large trees that blew over during the ice and wind storms about a year ago.


Rick and Dad got everything finished up in 2 days. Rick ended up removing a driveway, making a new one, widening one, moving 2 fuel tanks, removing 2 large root wads, digging an area out for a pool, putting in a large french drain and ran about 150' of underground drain tile.