Rocks and dirt, oh my!

Tuesday we had a load of rock delivered to go in the curbed area and some good soil to mix in with what we have. Combining the load meant free delivery, yay! Unfortunately we had the names mixed up and ordered the wrong rock, boo! So the rock store suggestion was to fill these huge white bags, pictured below, with the wrong rock and they could come get it and deliver the correct rock. That seamed like a lot of work we weren't real thrilled to do.

After looking around a bit, FIL found someone that could come and scoop up the rock into his dump trailer, take it back to exchange and deliver the right stuff. YAY!
So around 8:15 this morning they got to work, loading the wrong rock and taking it back.

Upon return, he moved the dirt onto the driveway, because it's going to be a little over a week before we get to that stage and didn't want it sitting out on the street.

Then he got to work unloading the correct rock.

Someone thought this was pretty cool.

My yard, however, now looks like this...

Because of this...

But instead of shoveling and wheel-borrowing the rock from the street, it's now in piles where it needs to be.

Still leaving us work, but not as much as we had to do originally.

So once it stops raining, we'll get to work, moving the rock into place.

Tilling the yard, then fixing the sprinklers is next.
Then we get to lay down sod instead of trying to seed. After some research, it wasn't that much more, it will get delivered as part of the cost and has a better success rate. YAY!
So hopefully in about two weeks or so, we'll have a respectable looking yard.

For now, while the rain is falling, I'll get back to my other project, organizing auction stuff. After tomorrow, my office will be taken over as the teachers will start turning in their class baskets, I have a couple that I picked up today, and they are awesome. Can't wait to see what all we get!