Thursday Update

The main wall is nearly complete, though we need the capping stones and two connecting little walls behind each pillar.  The guys did a major job today by finishing the courses, doing the gravel and filling in behind the fabric pipe stuff.  

There is a Home and Garden Show in Roseburg at the end of the month, and Matthew has a landscaping display of his work, and a booth, so from now until the show he is taking Fridays off to get that organized.  Which is fine with me.  Today was particularly noisy, with the tractor, the grinder, the gravel dump thingy (haven't a clue what it's called), and I am looking forward to a quiet day tomorrow.  In light of that, there will be no changes to the look of the wall until Monday, so these few photos are it for now.

The wall will look ever so much better after the capping stones are on, and the dirt behind the wall is leveled.  Then we will have a terrace, another small wall, and stone steps from the driveway around to the back deck on the side of the house.  It all seems insurmountable to me at this point, but Matthew is still enthused...thank goodness.

I made Chocolate Chip cookies this afternoon, and think I will now go have a cup of coffee and a few cookies.  Yum...