This project started in 4/25.
And it continued through 5/17.

First John chopped the dickens out of these five bushes at the end of the yard.

Then, the boys filled the wheelbarrow 1,568,293 times with the lava rocks that were first placed there more than 10 years ago.

Because John had explained we needed to clean the rocks off quite a bit from the years of clippings, the boys then had a running joke about “Father wants us to clean the rocks,” in a very faltering Oliver Twist voice. 

Then on 5/17, lo and behold, our neighbors’ son came by with his Bobcat and did in an hour what it would have taken John and the boys all summer to do.

This is all part of the Butler attention to the home theme of 2020.