Ok well....
it rained all Tuesday and Wednesday all day and night.

Friday we are getting the vibrating plate tamper.
Hopefully the little bit of masons sand we added will only help us work out the rainy clay substrate we have now.
The tire tracks have softened up from the rain so maybe this will make for easier smoothing and tamping on Friday.
DH says the sand will not be used as a leveling agent, there isn't even enough of it. And we wouldn't want it wash away in the future, so there is very little there. Praying it will mix nicely w/ the wet clay and make a good compound for us to work with.
We can only go forward from here.
I guess blood, sweat & tools are what it is going to take to get it flat, smooth and level.

~Hoffmans