A short peek at a long journey. The second wall story – thankfully things tend to go a bit quicker the second time around.
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After all the digging and digging and digging. It is time for this graham cracker crust consistency number 5 grade gravel.
This has to be leveled out before you put down the first row you see.|
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I was excited to get in on Mr. K’s solo DIH project. Holding the rake I contributed for all of a few minutes to this project that was my idea in the first place. Felt like the mature thing to do. Needing to have a photo taken and even mentioning it – k – not so mature.
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Mr. C is still going strong.
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Mr. K. Yea. After he finished all the leveling, then he hauled these 30lb retaining wall bricks and got on his knees and one by one put them in place.
Ok, down to the last of the first – exactly even tedious – layer. Go Mr. K.
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I can walk on it not even tell when a stone ends and where a new one begins. I mean, you could bowl on this wall. It’s level, believe you me.
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Here you have it. As you can cleme big did lots of cutting on these rectangular shaped toppers to get them to and a full couple of weekenHere you have it. As you cands,ave it. As you c we as-in-he got to this point:
Here you have it. As you can clearly see, there is some big curves happening here. Which means Mr. K did lots of cutting on these rectangular shaped toppers to get them to fit. Sorry about the curve idea. After the next week of working everynight and a full couple of weekends, we as-in-he got to this point:
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oh my goodness, i can see it!! i love the wall and all but i’m really dying over Mr. C in his jammy pants with a shovel. ugh!
Wow it’s come so far!! It looks amazing! Go Mr. K! And I love that you had to have your picture taken for your 5 minutes of work. You go girl.
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