Wish You Were HERE!

Here's the first piece to our garage: 24 cubic yards of class 5 gravel.

The brown area, to the right, is the site of our former woodpile. It took the 3 of us, 3 days to cut the weeds and brush, and dig the rotted leftover firewood out of the ground. We cut the small trees to the left, as they would be too close to the back wall of the garage.
This is the 1/4th of our back yard, where we tie the dog out. I had the brilliant? idea that the contractor should dump the topsoil he scraped off the garage site back here. This is the lowest area in our yard. Whenever it rains, there's 3 inches of standing water back here. Now we need to rototill this dirt and rake it out so the yard slopes down to the back corner of the yard. Hopefully we'll get this done before the grass starts growing on the topsoil.
Here's the nice level gravel pad for our garage floor. The apple tree in the foreground is history. I cut it down and grubbed out the stump. I set aside the wood, which will be cut up for BBQ smoke.
Here's our floor; all formed, rerodded, and ready for concrete, hopefully TODAY.

I soooooo want one of these!! This machine beats the hell out of my wheelbarrow, shovel, and rake!