5×15 on a dig-deep day: 15×15 on a surface day…

with the Mantis. That's what I'm good for before I flag. We have a sidewalk snaking down mid-lawn from the front porch. I have about 15 wide on the side I'm on, and I'm using the Mantis to get through the peatlike root mat left from the sod-stripping. It's slow work, and strenuous: rototillers even of mini size are that. But Jane got the bricks out of the flower bed, and it is now contiguous with the lawn, which is becoming tilled earth. I turn up the roots to kill the re-start of the grass (...