Whew I am bushed; taking a break. We had 14 cubic yards of dirt delivered to our driveway on Friday; me, h, and his friend R are in the process of moving it by wheelbarrows into the backyard and dumping it on the other side of the retaining wall we built awhile back. They built a very functional ramp using a cooler filled with dirt, a cinderblock, and a long board.

It feels like a HUGE undertaking - we are maybe-maybe almost halfway done. I tried to talk h into hiring people to move it for us, but he insisted we can do it ourselves with R's help. He is still hopeful, while I am not!! I cannot keep up with them; there is no way. I loaded up, moved, and dumped 10 wheelbarrows full yesterday evening and that about did me in! We stopped working when it got too dark to see. It's just too hot during the main part of the day so we're working from around 6a-9a and then after the sun goes down til we can't see good enough anymore. My job today since we have only 2 wheelbarrows is to level out the dirt as they dump it over the wall and we just slowly move the ramp down the wall as it gets filled up.

Here's what the mountain looked like at 5:45 this morning just before we started: