My back is sore from all the yard work yesterday. Beth and I were up fairly early on Saturday to get Alex to his swimming lessons, and we were actually all in the car and on the way when Brian called and asked if I still needed him to bring the jackhammer he had rented over. We had talked about it at small group on Friday evening. He was breaking up a slab to get rid of a basketball hoop, and I still needed it to remove the remnant of the slab behind the garage that I never did finish a couple years ago. Anyway, I went back home while Beth took the kids to the Y, and Brian had the jackhammer over a bit later. It took maybe 20 minutes to get the slab all broken up (he did the work while I was assembling a wheelbarrow I bought ‘cuz the tractor died), we split to rental cost and he took the thing back, then I spent the next couple hours hauling broken pieces of concrete back to the back of the yard and dumping them. Heavy work. Then we moved on to digging up all the stones from the space by the southeast corner of the house, sifting out the dirt, and using the dirt to fill in the hole where the slab had been. The stones went to the back as well. This went on for several hours Saturday. I was thinking about getting back to the retaining wall, but decided not to push it. Today, my back is killing me.