DISCLAIMER: This post in no way is encouraging any aggression towards any feathered creatures.
Honestly, I did not even come up with that phrase, although I am guilty of using it. "Killing two birds with one stone" is just a phrase used to imply very effective effort, and that's the part that I like. In this video, I share a recent example.
KILLING THREE BIRDS WITH ONE STONE
THE PHOTO STORY!
Along with all of my other projects waiting for me back in Arkansas is this project that I got started before I left. I'm expanding the culvert for our driveway, but that's not exactly what this post is about. Basically, this is a lot of hard work with a pickax at the moment, but I am thankfully able to make a lot of use of it, as I will show you.
Two main byproducts of this labor are generally created, and both of them are useful to me.The first is small rocks and the other is dirt. Just by grabbing some five gallon buckets I was able to get a lot more done than I had originally planned on.
The bucket is a great way to collect the small rocks, because it allows you to store and move many small rocks at once. Also, a bucket-full of small rocks seems to be a good weight for me to move.
I am still working on building the rock columns around my T-posts on our perimeter fence, and it takes a lot of small rocks to fill these in. Since we have to collect small rocks for that project anyway, this was a perfect opportunity. I was encountering a lot of small rocks that I had to move anyway, so now I've got a bunch collected to be used in our fence.
The work I did at the moment generated four full buckets, which may be able to fill about a third of one column. Trust me, that rock column project will take a while to actually complete, but we are making progress!
The other resource that I gathered as I worked on the culvert was buckets full of dirt. Again, I had to move the dirt any way, but thankfully I had another project just waiting for an opportunity like this!
Our small power pole with the meter box on it still had a hole around it in the ground. Somehow I always end up missing dirt when I dig a hole, and there is never enough to fill it back in. Even with 
Now, though, with buckets full of dirt at my disposal, I could finally finish securing this pole. It took quite a few buckets, so I am glad that I had so many of them!
We didn't finish until after dark, but we got that job done anyway, and it wasn't even on our current "to-do list." It just happened to fall into place to be finished. Thankfully, I was aware of these other uses for the "waste" from the job I was working on, and it's just one more example of working smarter and being effective! Thanks for checking it out!
As always, I'm 
and here's the proof:
proof-of-working-smarter
