Oh man, am I sore.
I have decided that landscaping is all about moving a lot of weight around. We started by removing the old driveway and garage pad
Minus 60,000 pounds (Yes! Weighed at the recycling yard)
Then we needed to fill in the hole with topsoil
Add 15,000 pounds
Since we removed all the concrete, we obviously need to add a new sidewalk
Add 15,000 pounds
Since the sidewalk changed the grade of the yard, let’s move around a bunch of dirt to fix up the slopes
Push around 15,000 pounds
Ok, the basics are done. Time to build the fence with 12 foot 6×6’s, and set them with more cement
Add 1000 pounds
Time for new sod!
4000 pounds
Whew. Two weeks and 110,000 pounds later. 55 tons of manual labour. My back hurts, my knees hurt, my ankles hurt, my elbows hurt. I need to go back to work to recover.
My Elysium 
Update: We have found that the sidewalk we poured is too high. So we are going to have to jack up the house about six inches to compensate….;-)
lol