At the end of April, 2005, we still had more work to do and ended up pretty much doing everything all over again.

Mike Butts was the contractor and he had a better feel for what we wanted as well as what we really needed. On the first day, we fixed the side bordering the neighbor to the north plus the sprinkler pipe pass-through and a couple of storm drains leading from the gutter downspout to pass through the first wall (to avoid water washing out the wall).

And they stood us up; we can't find a backhoe operator, so it's back to the workshop...