Lest you all should begin to think that my life consists only of international travels and beautiful mennonite women and a cute baby boy.......Welcome to my life today......it includes a LOT of mud and deep ditches and big equipment. The project is putting a french drain around our house to keep water out of the basement. I only wish that the folks that built this house many years ago would have had the brainy idea to put in a french drain when the house was being built. That would have been much easier and much less messy....at least for me.

The boys are thrilled with all the mud and the little digger. Their expressions of delight are worth the mess. It's a boy's world through and through!!!

Watching from the safety of the porch.

I was being a pretty good sport about the dirt until it rained Thursday evening/night and we suddenly had mud everywhere. Dirt is one story. Mud. A different one!

Rubber boots are needed apparel around here!

This is what I call 'working in the trenches'

My Redneck back yard! I am quite anxious for things to be back to normal again. I love home improvements once they are complete. I do not enjoy the process of getting there though!