Vacuuming the grass...

Why would we vacuum the grass? Well, a certain group of kids thought it was a good idea to dump several boots full of gravel in the yard. The natural consequence was that they had to pick it all back up. After working for an hour, they got quite a bit done - but there was still a lot buried down deep so Duncan got out the shop vac and we got quite a bit more out.


As they were {arguing about} picking them up, they kept saying "This is too hard - we'll never do it again!" They also kept looking at me with a look that said "can't we just have a time-out instead of having to pick all these up?"