July 18, 2007: Piles and piles of fill... start...
We staked it out. Note the orange handle is about how high the fill has to be to be level with the house. You can also just make out the cord that we had a string level on as a guide to how high we had to come up. The picture really cannot give you the pitch. Let's just say that we will need a LOT of fill. The yellow sign says, DUMP FILL HERE.
Here's the view from inside with the old gravel covering. It's so tiny. We're really EXCITED and we are going to make a it really big terrace. Later (I'm writing this July 31st), TIRED (today) when the terrace isn't done yet we will realize that we got carried away. But it is going to be GREAT!
The fill level. (sorry no shots of the dump truck or the tractor)
From the south east side you can get a little feel for the depth of the fill. This is the side that will get a stone wall. I want to keep the rock (see the gray area to the right coming out of the ground) free and have some plants around it. It was covered all theese years with a wild rose bush and a bush of some sort. I trimmed the rose back. The bush is gone.
From the west side. The entry path will wrap up onto the terrace from here.
Other things were going on in the yard too:
Holly from Joey's house.
Bleeding Heart from Joey's house.
Stone bird bath from Joey's yard.
