Mud, Dirt Cheap...

So Joe has been trying to put a fence in the backyard to separate the kid zone from the garden zone. The problem is that the ground here is rock hard (not to mention the abundance of rocks too). As you can imagine this does not make a fun honey to-do item. But alas, done it must be.
A solution to the back breaking, hand hammering (yes he did hit his hand with the hammer a few times), post driving work is to water the ground first. Yes you read that right. We are watering the dirt, not the garden. When you think about it, it does make sense that wet dirt is softer than dry dirt. So that's what we did (with the last two posts).
Now here comes the good part, the two older kids wanted to help with the last post/dirt watering. Great idea right? Great way to get the kids involved and motivated to help right? Well ok yeah, if you want your kids covered in mud that is. Did you know that a sock can be filled with mud? It can! I cleaned out 4 mud filled socks. I also discovered that mud makes a wonderful brown dye. That's right! You can, for free, dye all your whites a beautiful dingy brown just by dragging them in some homemade mud!
If you're really lucky though, you might just have a good laugh after hosing down two very dirty kids.
And you'll be happy to know that the last post was easy to place in all that mud.