The story goes that when they laid out this neighborhood in the 1950s, the developer scraped off the top X feet of topsoil, so we were left with CRAP dirt and ROCKS. Add to the fact that the river down the street was carved out by an ancient glacier, and we know what glaciers do, and you can see why digging anything near my house sucks.
An esker is a long winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel, examples of which occur in glaciated and formerly glaciated regions of Europe and North America. Eskers are frequently several miles long and, because of their peculiar uniform shape, are somewhat like railroad embankments.
My yard is like that too. Almost no topsoil, it was clearly removed when the lots were built on. They didn't even grade the lot to slope away from my house correctly! I had to correct that after I bought the place.
Heh, if I'd seen this earlier in the day me and my can't-do-squat of a spine might have come by to cheer you on. Instead I spent the day sneezing my fool head off and digging up irises buried by the backhoe
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An esker is a long winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel, examples of which occur in glaciated and formerly glaciated regions of Europe and North America. Eskers are frequently several miles long and, because of their peculiar uniform shape, are somewhat like railroad embankments.
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