mail and one big hole

so i managed to get two packages to the post office today. my backtack goodies are on their way to canada. can i say that? i guess so, she is going to find out soon enough anyway. so here is what i came up with.

a little zippered pouch filled with embroidering goodies, some leftover fabric, an owl days of the week tea towel ebroidery pattern, a vintage summery lounge coat pattern, a summer kinder egg (doesnt get as melty, how cool??) and a needle roll. it was my first attempt at a needle roll. harder than i thought it was going to be. here is a shot of the inside. im pretty pleased with it.

it looks very similar to the one i received, thanks mary for your inspiration! so on to the big hole. david got something very big accomplished this weekend. when we bought our house, on the side there was this awful raised concrete bed full of yucca and chicks and hens and all kinds of things that im not crazy about. sorry yucca but i hate you unless im in texas somewhere. anyway, being the respectable, new homeowners that we were, we made a half-assed attempt to dig out the plants, then let the thing get all overgrown for the next three years. nice, huh? so this last week, in some fit of restless energy david decides he is going to chop down all the weeds, dig out the bed, bust it all up with a sledge hammer and get the thing the freak out of there. he man-handles the weeds with no problem, and then starts digging... and digging, and digging. holy cow, what we though was a 18 inch raised bed turned out to be an old concrete gold fish pond filled in with huuuuuge rocks! you think im kidding? check it.

look at the size of those rocks, and how deep that piece of crap is!!! here is a shot of david in the thing for scale. notice the tired look on his face that says, "what have i started?"

he got the whole thing dug out tuesday night i think. i secretly thought it was just going to stay like that for another few months, but no! a second surge of restless energy was to be had on saturday. my dad showed up with his big truck and his big jack-hammer. yeah, there was no way a sledge hammer was going to do a thing to this baby. i wish i would have gotten some action shots of them busting the thing out, but it was really hot and surprisingly disturbing in a homoerotic way to watch two men use a jack-hammer. (im thinking village people-esque here). they managed to get the whole thing broken up, hauled out, and filled back in. see how much happier and cleaner david looks. way to go sweetie!

there is one last small pile of rocks to be hauled away, and then the plan is to plant some peony bushes along the side of the house and put down some grass seed on the rest. can you believe it!?? it looks a million time better. you rock david!