Posts tagged ‘retaining wall’
- Two steps down in the back on November 27th, 2012
In the two months since I finished the backyard retaining wall, getting down to the alley and the trash/recycling cans has required a short jump down. And then a small climb back up. Because there were no steps…until this weekend. I could’ve built the steps weeks ago, but I wanted to make sure that they [...]
- Finishing up the backyard retaining wall on September 21st, 2012
After one week, the backyard retaining wall is done. Even as I wrote that just now, I was so dubious that it was actually just one week that I brought up my calendar to doublecheck and make sure I wasn’t imagining things. Yep. I went and got the sledgehammer last Thursday night, came home from [...]
- Turning an overgrown nightmare of a backyard into something better on September 17th, 2012
The amount of work that is needed in the backyard to be able to start our herb and vegetable garden is just one more example of the never-ending chain of related to-dos around the old rowhouse. To wit: For two years, Rachel has been eagerly waiting for the day when she can start planting the [...]
