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Huge strides in dog relations today = one tired Mommeh with enough activity to sleep tonight AND use up my back.

The rock-moving project is done insofar as I did what I could on my own and then worked with 3 enterprising neighborhood kids looking for a bit of pocket money. Snagged addresses and fone numbers for thank you notes to parents (and CC flyers). Great kids. Today's Work Habits 101 was about saving energy for Site Cleanup, whether the work has been hands-on or all brains. They also showed me Newbie's great love for kids; while I sat nearby with suggestions for easier ways to work, the two tethered dogs got closer... and closer... and we're trusted while I'd step inside for water, etc. Very nice being in a suburbsn-type neighborhood. They have hills hm here too. It's kinda nice being around the busy-Ness of an age-diverse neighborhood like this. Original owners still dot the streets. Some rental houses here as well so lots of turnover. Lively. Nice people.

So now that the cleft full of landscape rocks is empty (the rocks on plastic kilt the grass there for me), I get to buy soil and amendment matter and plant the easiest drift of mixed daffodils. The kids who helped will use their fones to send me pix, cuz it may be years before I'm back at exactly the right time to see them come up. The cleft is where a bush and its roots were ripped out by sellers-- the roots had clogged the drains. The line left is beautifully shaped au nature, and I'm leaving one end unplanned because that's where the wishing well will go. My houseguest the last few days here just may help me remake the one I brought down from PA-- it's too tall and the base was not done in presdure-treated, so I will lop off the rotten bottom 1/4 and refrain it in p.t. wood, make it a new roof on the existing base, trim all this out in board and batten, paint..... and I have all the materials but the new p.t. 2×4's.

3000 sore steps today.