Today I worked for about 7 hours straight doing yardwork for people I didn't know. I did it with my friend Cameron, though, so that was one of the huge uplifters for me while I was working.
We arrived at the house and walked into the backyard, where a huge pile of dirt (6 feet tall, wider than a car is long) was sitting. The man (Mark) and his wife (either Shanelle or Danielle or something along those lines, we never really were sure) greeted us and told us to start shoveling the dirt into wheelbarrows to move up a small slope and onto their backyard, where we would rake it out flat and then put sod over it.
Long story short, we did all of that. Sod isn't that heavy, but it's cumbersome, and therefore is kind of annoying to handle. Once we raked and put the sod down (after they fertilized it), we cut the edges of the sod up and then called it a day.
When they were cutting the sod up, though, they took a 30 minute break. A different section of their backyard still needed more dirt, so while they were all relaxing, I was wheeling up a lot of dirt, and did so 6 or 7 times.
As such, my limbs are sore and my head still pounds slightly, but it was worth it.
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