Leo, you can come visit here and dig as much as you want. You can go out in the backyard and ponder what it is about my soil that makes it so much work when I take a shovel to it but that my dogs can excavate a smallish replica of the Grand Canyon in the course of a few minutes. I wish I could get them to do that digging in the garden plot, then put the fence up around it. Maybe we could make it into a game--except they wouldn't know when to stop and would dig up the entire back yard. . .

[sigh]