Stonewalling

Before I get into our hedge and the wall, I wanted to post a pic of the rot in our laundry room. The rot discovery and the water coming out of the ceiling happened over Memorial Day weekend, just to anchor it in time a bit better than my last post.

Appetizing, eh?

Okay, now back to the wall. We got the first batch of bricks back in May, and in preparation pulled out the reflectors and t-post at the end of the driveway so we could prep the area, such as dig out some of the driveway gravel where the planting bed would be. It was a rainy Sunday, and so as soon as we got the bricks unloaded, we went inside. We came out a half hour later only to find that someone had already driven over the strip between the private road and our driveway! In case you don't recall, this is where the French drain we put in last fall goes, and if someone drives over it, it can get crushed. We were pretty pissed that within minutes of pulling out the stake, someone drove over it. So, we had to put bricks down in the pouring rain. Fun.

We did it, though, and over the week after Memorial Day, we finished it off. It looked surprisingly nice. Here's the view from the street (where the post stands is where the car drove over when we pulled the post out).

And here's the view from our house, when the wall is not quite complete.

Stay tuned tomorrow for some pictures of the completed project!