One more thing. Before you go too crazy with the rake or rototiller, check for the utility lines.
A few new houses we worked at, the guys who ran the phone line to the house didn't bury it, or it was only an inch or two in the soil. Knowing the beforehand can save you a whole pile of grief.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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