Patio !!

As you can tell from this picture, our house was dug out

of the side of a hill and so it left us with a high embankment

at the back. During the early stages of building (winter mostly)

we fought back all the mud that would come down during the rainy

weather. This is what we've looked at from the beginning and

now this weekend we were finally able to get some help in building

a retaining wall to hold all the mud and dirt.

This is the beginning of the wall on Saturday morning. And this is the final results

Stairway area that we had started a couple of weeks

ago. They made it look even better with the rocks going

up both sides of the steps.

Now this afternoon (Monday) we're going to work

on backfilling w/ dirt to make it look even better

and hopefully get some sod or landscaping done

before it starts raining....hopefully !!