Hitting the Wall

During most summers I take on one fairly large-scale home improvement project. One year it was painting the house, another it was laying 1000+ sqft of tile. You get the idea. Lately, we have been having problems with dirt washing down onto the driveway from the hill that is next to it. So, I decided that I needed to put in a retaining wall to remedy this problem. This is what the area looked like as I started my own little "big dig".


Gallons of sweat, a hundred glasses of water (thanks to Miranda), a dozen bags of sand, and a one and a half pallets of wall block later, this is the finished project.


So far it has withstood two drenching thunderstorms and everything is still perfectly level. We still have some grass to plant, and some landscaping to do, but phase 1 of the wall is complete! Phase 2, which consists of the same wall in the backyard, will have to wait till it cools off a bit.