Gwen, 12 weeks along. Poodle and Orange dog look on.
Jason starts digging the hillside for the retaining wall, straight outside of the basement sliding glass door in the central part on the south border of our lot
Poodle on top of the dirtcliff.
Taun We, hiding in the long grass.
Mom wanted pictures of the my car proving that it was fixed.
The lawnmower.
Some pictures of the house for Dad, who wanted evidence for what it looked like with the lawn mowed.
The new growth on the cacti were caught by surprise by UV from real sunlight.
I drove the ton of bricks up onto Mom and Dad's lot.
View of the protowall from the southwest deck.
Genubi and Schamali in the back yard watching over the wall-building work.
Schamali.
Genubi.
Taun We.
Just started on the wall.
Trying to keep the whole thing straight.
The supervisory crew.
The bottom course is buried for stability, and we've already re-dirted around most of those so they're hard to see.
I just leave the poodle loose -- she doesn't wander far. Okay, well, she did chase a cat out from under the trailer for a few houses, but she came right back. Good thing she didn't catch up to it -- I'm not sure she would have fared well in a fight!
Got 6 courses of 6" high bricks there at the end, but it will quickly taper down to 5 and then further as we proceed east.