Chandler learning to drive the Kubota!

Leave it to Mom & Dad to make lemons out of lemonade…they ripped out the lawn and put in a dry creek bed and manicured landscape.

What, might you ask, does this have to do with rocks?!?

Mom finding just the right river rocks to take home!

Well, the lovely new dry creek bed needed a border…and yes, it needed river rocks. Mom & Dad priced them at a local nursery / landscaping shop and come to find out the rocks cost something like $5 each. They needed about 200 of them to completely their border – and no way were they paying $2,000 to get the job done!

Uncle to the Rescue
One advantage of living in the town where you grew up as a child and marrying your high school sweetheart is that you know everyone in town! Or you’re related to them!! Turns out Uncle Terry’ s wife’s nephew owns a cattle farm in the next town over….and, it’s on the river, which is – you guessed it – brimming with river rock!

Uncle Terry & Mom tossing carefully selected river rock into back of the truck.

All of this to say that we spent a couple of hours at the river and collected a truckload of river rock all for the price of a gallon of diesel ($4) and a little manual labor ($0)!

….and the new landscaping is beautiful!