I have had a very productive morning, I weeded my garden, planted perennials, and watered my plants, I even started dinner in my slowcooker than I tackled the green turtle. The green turtle is a green plastic turtle sandbox. Over the winter it was covered with 3 feet of snow and when it melted we discovered that the cover came off just slightly, enough to allow melted snow to pool over the sand that was in there. For weeks I have looked at my kitchen window at this sandy lagoon and asked my husband to please empty it so we could either put new sand in it or throw it out, for weeks I continued to look at it. This morning I had had enough of this green turtle and with my near 4 year old, a 5 gallon bucket and plastic yellow shovel we headed to the green turtle. After baling 3 buckets of water out we proceeded to shovel out 4 bucketfuls of wet, great sand castle making sand, than I proceeded to carry them up a hill to dump each bucketful. Now, the green turtle is no more, the mosquito haven is gone and I have had my cardio for the morning.
