As one of my many home improvement projects I wanted to add a planter to my backyard. The main reason is to be able to have a nice looking yard and keep my dogs from digging it up. This was more of a week long project than a weekend but I think it came out really nice.

My Gardener leveled the area for me. He made much quicker work of it than I could have.

Then I had 153 wall bricks delivered. Mind you they are in the front and they need to be in the back.

The first row is started……

and finished.

I should be done but we decided we needed another row so I went to buy 40 more wall bricks.

Now to the building supply place for the soil. I had no idea how many trips I would have to make to get enough.

1000 pounds…….

2000 pounds…..per trip!

Turned out to be 5 trips. On the last day, I rented a U-Haul so I wouldn’t have to rush to get back to the building supply before they closed.

Thanks to the customer at home depot (watching me shake my head at the price of DIRT) I saved about $500 by going to the building supply place. “remember, I have no clue what I am doing when it comes to this stuff”

Now I have to get this…. to the back yard, so here we go.

Shoveling…….

and shoveling…….

and shoveling…….

and hauling…….

and dumping…….

and leveling…….

to get to this

all during the hottest week of the summer of 2010.
So I said to myself,
“Self, if you had some work lights, you could do this after dark……. Lo and behold

The husband came to help…..

The rotweillers came to help…..

The rotweillers wanted to play……

The rotweillers wanted to rest.
All to get to this.

P.S. Just kidding about the husband. I’d still be working on it if it hadn’t been for his help.