If you missed my last post about the retaining wall, scroll down or follow the link to see my laborings of Saturday morning.

After the trip to Home Depot in the afternoon, I went back out after dinner. As you can see from the below picture, I managed to get layers 3 and 4 pretty much complete.

A brief summary of the plans for the wall after this, though it is kind of hard to explain. The wall that is in the foreground will continue back and around (following the curve of the path to the steps). This path (the part that is not done yet anyways) will be at the 4 brick level (matching with the wall that is now in the background). The path that starts near the house will have 2 more levels put on it (making it 6-high), and continue in sort of a 90 degree circular arc to meet up to the first step (opposite of the tomato plant). That will make the back section (that is currently full of grass) 6-high, which should give everything a 3-tiered effect, with 3 different levels. I may add a 4th level to divide that back section – we’ll see. It is my goal to make the entire lawn one giant retaining wall, as it cuts down on mowing :-).

The reason I stopped last night is that I appear to have unearthed a yellowjacket’s nest. We have these bugs that like to hop around that have infested our front yard. So when I saw lots of things flying around I just figured that was them. But then I noticed a distinct bee-like flavor to these flying things. So we’ll need to take care of that first.

In closing, here’s a closeup of our tomato plants.