Benji and Brandon Benson: dirt, dirt, and more dirt!

On Saturday Brandon worked all day on digging the ditches. Jeremy was planning on helping Brandon but he got sick Friday night and was unable to come. Soooooo... I got to be the helper. Late Saturday afternoon we had to take a trip to Lowe's to get parts to fix the slight water leak so that we could even take a shower. Brandon was able to fix it no problem. Sunday morning Kitty and I got up and went for a 2-mile run before church while Brandon worked on the backyard. When we got back from our run Brandon had accidentally hit another line so I had to go to Lowe's to get the parts to fix it. I am beginning to think we should have bought stock in Lowe's! Billy (Brandon's dad) came by Sunday to help Brandon get some of the work done. We now have the electrical pipe laid from the house to the shop and the water line from the house to the shop, but we still have 3 ditches running from the house to the shop, 1 ditch from the house to the water faucet in the backyard, and 1 ditch that goes from the house to the light pole on the east side of the house. Brandon is planning on working on the backyard again Saturday so hopefully the ditches will be gone this weekend. They are still working on the lake/pond in the back field. Therefore, our yard is a big dust ball. My car is covered with dust along with anything else in our yard. Tonight I went to the scrimmage game against CAC to watch my brother play football. Defense looked a little better than last year, but I am still not so sure about the offense. Mom said Spank was really excited after the game Monday night so that's a good sign. They didn't keep score since it was a scrimmage, but there were quite a few people there.

Benji running the "ditch witch". I didn't get to run it very long because I'm not very good at digging a straight line. Truth be known, I can't draw, cut, or walk a straight line so that's nothing to be concerned about. :)