This weekend we placed rock around the perimeter drain pipes. As mentioned in our last posting there is not enough room to get a regular wheelbarrow to the SE corner so I modified an old frame and created the “BucketBarrow” you see in the above picture. It worked great.

It still took a lot of trips but it was much easier than hand carrying buckets. (which we also did). Since there is a lot of room on the north side, Dozy was able to do the heavy lifting and dumping.

Though it’s kind of hard to see in this picture, we epoxied all the horizontal rebar for our NE retaining wall into the shell of the house. The fiberglass rebar which was graciously donated by Marshall Composite Technologies, LLC.,  is cool to work with, although you have to wear gloves handling it because of the glass fibers.

Jeff spent some time thinning the trees that are growing down the hill from our south terrace. In our Northwest climate, trees grow like weeds.  If we didn’t keep up with the yard work, we would eventually lose the view. An added bonus: the alder tree that Jeff cut down will give us a bit more firewood for next year.