Pits, windows, and tipsy toads

With springtime downpours nearly every weekend, the sides of the well caved in twice (resulting in hours upon hours of extra digging). When a dry spell finally showed up, we went to work, building the well and installing the window as fast as we could.

At the time we were working on the egress window, the boys had been busy memorizing a scripture from 2 Nephi 28:8, which says "And there shall also be many which shall say...dig a pit for thy neighbour; there is no harm in this." They could barely hold in their laughter when our next door neighbor showed up one evening while we were all covered in mud and....you guessed it, offered to help us dig our pit!

Now that everything's in place, we don't have to worry about mud caving into the well. But there's a new concern -- curious animals who venture to close to the edge of the well (wanting to see what all the rukus was about). Just a few days after the well was finished, the boys pulled off a search-and-rescue mission for a baseball-sized toad who lost his balance while hopping along the rim!