A beautiful day for some yard work

We are in for some delicious spring weather here today and tomorrow, so Uncle Chrissy (who is visiting us for the week) and I took the boys out in the back yard to put them to work. No dead weight allowed around here; there is simply too much to be done in our little house that was neglected for so long. For example? Our backyard is covered in dead leaves. We have two huge oak trees that dropped all their business on the ground this past fall, but as it appears the previous owners were not in a capacity to deal with it, we are now stuck with leaf-removal duty. Who knows how many giganto lawn trash bags we will be filling with these crispy numbers, which are currently serving as pseudo-mulch for the billions of bulb plants now peeking out into the world.

Isaac volunteered to rake at first, but was much more useful as a Pile Monitor:





When that got old, we put him to work watering the roses and filling the bird bath. He thought it would be a more valuable use of water to properly hydrate the grass. And his shoes.



When I tried to get him to water our many patches of daffodils and narcissi, he thought it might be better for stomping purposes to conserve the water and to behead the flowers instead:



It being so lovely, Isaac then turned to working on the car. You see, his car has long had this problem with its engine. First he asked Uncle Chrissy to help him push the thing to the mechanic's --



-- but apparently Chrissy is the worst pusher ever and Isaac was stuck doing it himself:





We'll get to Jacob later. Perhaps we can count on him for a steady supply of mustard-colored fertilizer?