I don't take on projects like this. Ruth will attest to it. In fact I believe the day I began digging, Ruth was downright scared. It's a pretty small scale project. It's just not like me and I know that. It's not what I'm good at, and I know that too. But it's a good lesson in trying something new and stepping out of my comfort zone...you know my office.
I'm building a retaining wall in our backyard. Originally there were a few old rotting rail way ties holding back the dirt. I ripped those out and dug a trench. It's a pretty straight forward process. I've been working with Josh ( http://themillerhood.blogspot.com/ ) at his house with several walls over the years, so I felt like I knew how to do it.
I didn't.
But Josh rescued me and put me on the path to success. I didn't dig deep enough or wide enough. I was also apparently being a little too picky on the leveling of the bottom row. The bottom row is everything, if you don't get those right, you're hosed.
Progress is slow as I have more projects then I can keep up with. If I'm not working on my illustration freelancing, I'm trying to get my photo freelancing of the ground. If I'm not doing either of those, I have no excuse to not be in the backyard shoveling gravel and stacking bricks. It's labor! It's real, actual labor. For goodness sakes I'm getting blisters and a sore back!
I've learned something; working in the yard makes me feel like I really deserve ice cream.
Also, I bought a new lens recently so I'm testing it out here on the wall and on these flowers. It's a sigma 17-70mm with macro focusing. Tell me if it measures up.
Also tell me how awesome my wall is.
It makes me feel like a manly man.
Ah, who am I kidding I just posted a picture of pretty flowers.