The sun came out this afternoon and it wasn't long before the dozer guy showed back up. I LIKE that guy! He finished clearing out all those old stumps and spread out all those piles of dirt, then said he would be back tomorrow when it had dried out just a bit more to do the final grading. Great! Actually, it looks pretty good to us already. With all those huge tree stumps GONE and that low spot right in the middle that used to turn into a lake with every heavy rain GONE and the tree line clear and the ground tapering gradually down to the center swale across the entire pasture, we are HAPPY. 
No water collects anywhere except at the bottom of that shallow basin where it's supposed to collect. Perfect. That's where we plan to put the Cypress trees and irises.
So if he's going to get it to look even better before he quits, we will be tickled to death. He's been worth every dime.
And I got a note from the fence guy this afternoon saying he expects to have our fence bid ready by Tuesday. We said we would buy the posts, so he told us he had calculated that we would need about 310 8-foot posts. Yikes! I hate to think what he's going to charge us to put IN that many posts! And then there's the actual fencing materials themselves. Ouch! I'm going to try not to even think about what the grand total is probably going to be.
But . . . on the plus side, my very first Social Security check showed up in our account today. I guess I am now officially "old." But I wasn't expecting them to begin until October, so it was good to find out that there will be some extra money coming in before we discover how much all that fencing is going to cost!
In the more immediate future, tomorrow will be Joey's first obedience class -- and not a moment too soon. He is becoming more and more of a handful every day! I guess I'm not that "calm, assertive pack leader" Cesar is always talking about. But maybe I can learn . . .
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