ONE MORE BRICK IN THE WALL

Building our 1st retaining wall was fun, and dare I say easy. Sure it was hard work, and the blocks where pretty heavy. But it only took us about 3 hours to build the whole wall. And we spent the whole time joking around and feeling proud of ourselves for this great accomplishment. I’ve decided to call that wall

“The Great Wall of Deceit”

I've dubbed the 2nd retaining wall

“The GREAT wall of SHANE”

It has gone up only because of Shane’s force of will. 1st of all the wall required A LOT more blocks. Like 6 truck loads. These blocks had to be loaded into the truck and trailer and later had to be unloaded. These blocks are VERY heavy, so heavy that the boys and I can not lift them. Now we did have a lot of help, from the guy who we bought the blocks from and some neighbors. But for the most part all block transferring was done by Shane.

Then there was the digging. We hired a guy with a tractor to do the lion’s share of this work. But we (by we I mean Shane and sometimes Perrin and more sporadically me) still spent hours digging down the last few inches and making the ground smooth and level.

Then we (again Shane) placed the rocks. Perrin was able to help more with this step and our neighbors helped A LOT! It took one full day and several nights after Shane got off work to place all the blocks.

We (Shane) did it! The wall is up! It won’t be complete until we can pour the cement pad in the spring, but the hard part is over!