A Work in Progress

After living in our home for 10 years we are finally going to tackle the backyard and make it our dream yard. The people we bought our home from loved to garden. I mean REALLY loved to garden. Half of the backyard is dirt. Well, having children and a life for that matter, have made it impossible for me to keep up with so we are doing a long overdue overhaul. See that big pile of dirt that goes from one end of the yard to the other? That was held up by ugly, rotten, tipping over railroad ties. Those went bye-bye one at a back breaking time. That took about a month since we are too cheap to pay someone else to do it. Now most of the dirt goes. This will be a long process (remember the to cheap to pay someone part) but one I'm looking forward to being over. We are hoping people will want this lovely dirt and come to take it away. Then the part where it doesn't matter how cheap you are it's going to cost a pretty penny, a retaining wall. I love having a yard that has a little depth and dimension and isn't just flat, but why in the world does cement poured into roughed up squares have to cost so dang much? I'm trying to talk Mike into boulders but he's convinced they will cost more and be really hard to get into the yard. I guess we'll cross that bridge when the dirt is gone.