Moving dirt, making 9 patch blocks, and eggs

After I picked up the neighbor's mail and took his and my trash and recycling bins out to the street, I got to work on moving the dirt pile. This is where the steps were and hopefully where the new deck will go. I needed to get this area sorted out and the skid steer ruts filled because I have no idea when my coworker will be doing the deck and I don't want to be in a time crunch to get this done.

My plan was to level out the area and use the excess fill to fill in the ruts.

After 45 minutes the area looked a lot better.

But I am not done. See the dark area at the bottom of the last picture. I need to remove some of that dirt and lower the whole area another couple of inches. I also need to clean up the pile of junk that was mixed in the dirt - concrete pieces, bricks, trash, and broken bottles.

The soil was loose and easy to move with my handy dandy hoe I bought last year.

I put away the tools after about 45 minutes of moving dirt and headed inside to sew. I wanted to get a few 9-patch blocks sewn together of each color wave just to see how they were going to look.

One of the fellows at work that I gave some Lenten Roses to has a small farm. They have chickens and he brought me a dozen eggs! I need to bake something!