What's a tractor doing in our front yard?

Or, what does landscaping look like in the middle of winter?

It feels extravagant to pay someone to play in the dirt for us. But, neither of us have the expertise or time to do, at least, an adequate job of fixing our sad yard. It wasn't landscaped well to begin with, the drainage is horrible, the sprinkler system doesn't reach everywhere, the grass was driven on a week after we moved in (by some idiot guys in a truck) with resulting rut marks, and on and on. We think it looks better in its current state of destruction than it has for the last several months.

I'll update with pictures as it progresses along.