The plan was to build an L-shaped retaining wall in the back garden using these interlocking Stackstone bricks. They’re kind of like Lego. Unfortunately they’re not super uniform, so it took the Tiger guys more effort than anticipated to set them level and straight. Here’s the first row going in.

Here’s the inner corner of the L. You can see that the blocks are basically hollow with a metal frame to reinforce them.

Since they were setting the blocks into concrete, I couldn’t resist writing our initials inside. I knew it would be filled with dirt and covered up for all eternity, but I like knowing that it’s there.

The wall grew pretty quickly and was mostly finished within a week or so.

The final steps were to fill behind it with gravel and soil, and to start laying down gravel in preparation for paving the courtyard.

But it wasn’t just the back garden that had work happening…

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