The "Great Wall" Project

For the past 5 years, approximately, Bernie has been working on his piles - his rock piles. In order to avert more erosion into the ravine, we have had tons and tons of concrete pieces hauled and dumped into our backyard. It has been a great solution to the erosion, and also provided needed materials to make an enormous retaining wall. The only cost was Bernie's commitment to intensive hours of backbreaking sweat labor, and the cost of hauling in the cement waste. The end product? A fabulous 10' tall and 50' long undulating retaining wall. It truly looks like something made by the W.P.A. in the 1930s and it is beautiful.
Tonight he finished the last of the rock laying.
This picture shows the wall just before he laid in the final tile line and the 2 last layers of rock. Now all we have to do is transfer topsoil to the area so that we can plant shrubs and perennial grasses along the lawn-side edge of the rocks.