My Wife was really worried. She said, "Get up, Dumba$$." 
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The wrist is pretty much healed. The hand? Not so much. Still can't make a fist, and put pressure on the fingers or thumb the wrong way and pain shoots up my arm to the shoulder.
But, I am tired of sitting in the house and counting the pattern in the wallpaper. Especially since the walls are painted. So, I fired up the tractor and put the horse in the stall, and attacked the dirt pile left from installing the new tornado shelter.- berm dirt 1.jpg (311.02 KiB) Viewed 521 times
The goal was to move the dirt from it's current location behind the shelter to an area ON the range, about 20 to 30 feet in front of the prospective location of the wall formed by the railroad ties when they are placed to form the C shaped holding structure for the dirt berm. Once that is built, the dirt will be moved into place inside the C and additional dirt will be added forming a nice protective berm for my 100 yard range. A few hours work, driving buckets of dirt to the new location, and ...
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If you look OVER the dirt pile, you can look UP range and see the range house about 90 yards away. With the 100 degree plus heat, I thought carefully about this location and laid out my range in a shaded location. It's a good 20 to 30 degrees cooler in the shade here. I am NOT shooting competition here, and the targets can be placed in lighted patches if need be.
The post move pic shows the greatly reduced pile. I would have moved the last of the dirt into the final couple buckets with a shovel in my younger days, or even before the fall. ONE handed old gimps don't do shovels. I will make a later attempt to scrape and collect a bucket or two more, then spread the rest across the yard. The fall rains will do the rest.
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The pallet forks should allow us to start on the berm wall in the near future. I hope to use the pallet forks to drive rebar spikes thru the RR Ties as anchors. Wish me luck.
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That was just fifty years and 150 pounds ago. 
