"Like butta"

We've enjoyed the DIY channel since we switched our DirecTV package, and get to watch a lot more shows about landscaping and "Do It Yourself" (DIY -- duh!) stuff. (I take back the nasty things I said about DIY earlier this year)...and one thing consistently amazes us.

Please raise your hand if you can take a shovel and push the entire head into the soft, dark earth relatively easily without hearing the harmonious "CLANG!" of hitting a rock/rocks.

Really? .... That's cool I guess. I didn't know that was possible. (sad)

In order for us to dig a hole, the following tools are required:

Shovel
Trowel
Hand mattock
Full size pick axe
Post hole digger
Weeding tool (the one that looks like an angled screwdriver/cobrahead)

We have a rock problem.

Here is the only picture of the rock pile in our yard I can locate on my computer...really it's not a rock pile. What I've created here is Black Widow Condominiums, with all the luxury upgrades. Damn. (The picture is funny because the raised beds are naked!! Notice the date.)














When we were rototilling the back lawn, we were pleasantly surprised that what we were tearing up was obviously fill dirt -- soft, gorgeous, promising -- not the rocky native dirt of Folsom.

And then WHAM! (CLANG! works for this onomatopoeia also...)

Then we hit this sucker with the rototiller. And it was the only rock we found. So weird. (Notice how large it is by the fact I am holding a rock that is the size of my hand next to it). Took Chris all of the tools to get it removed. It left a small depression where we filled it in, so we decided that is where one of the fruit trees will be planted since the hole is already dug.

(Yes, that seems to be how we locate holes...did a rock come out of it? Yep, should be large enough for a tree then.)

So to all of you who are able to dig a hole quite easily, to you I say, "Lucky!"

The earf melts like butta.