Beggar & Mooch Landscaping

We have done it. We have completed the wall.

Here are the statistics. It took us two weekends...four days, with a few hours after work during this past week. The wall took 138 bricks. The total cost of the west side of the project is $260.45. That price includes bricks and gravel. It does not include the thirty some hours Susan and I each put in. It does not include the rototiller we borrowed, the truck we borrowed, the wheel barrow we borrowed, or the pick, hoe, spade, and tamper we borrowed. 

If it wasn't for people we know, we would never get anything accomplished.

And now for the pictures.

This is the truck before I picked up 60 bricks.

This is the truck after it is loaded with 60 bricks. You may note that the water line is a little lower in the stern. It also navigates much more sloppily upon the roadways.

This is Oscar crapping in the newly spread dirt. I expect we are going to get a lot of cat fertilizer over the coming months.

This is how the garden looked at the very start of the wall project last Saturday.

This is what we ended up with today.

It's not perfect but I am happy. We plan to take what we learned into the next wall, which starts tomorrow.

Or possibly the day after that...or after that...or October.