My brother Matt used the box cutter to scrape and smooth the front yard dirt mound.  The chickens jog behind the tractor looking for fresh bugs!

Gee!  Crusty is still here!  "Tomorrow" it will be hauled away!

Then Matt dug the trench with the ditch witch for the new telephone line.  It goes right across where crusty was.  He and Dad got the conduit installed and the phone guy came today to put the new line in!  Wish we could say it's the last ditch we need to dig...

 My buddy Billy came to visit and he knocked down the pile in the back yard!!!!  The chickens loved that one! 

Then he ran the disc attachment around the whole area to break up the compacted soil.

Mom bought a nitrogen fixing cover crop to seed all the exposed soil.  This will hold the dust down and provide organic matter as we mow or till it in.  She spread the seeds and was fortunate enough to have a mule-boy to follow along pulling a board to lightly cover the seeds.  Now a couple weeks of watering!