Long Day on Tier Three

After several days of "slow progress", I have now completed half of the top three tiers! These tiers do not yet extend behind the house, but the hard part is done since the hill requires moving so much dirt.

After two grueling days of moving dirt (and working on the third tier), I woke this morning with the back ache of my life! I felt physically ill, and literally laid in bed until after noon! My back has cracked a few times, and is starting to feel much better now. I may not do much of any work on the hill today. I'm thinking of getting ready to extend the top three tiers behind the house. Hopefully, I can do this with less digging than has been required on the hill at the end of the driveway.

At least you can see that the project is starting to take form. You can start to see what the finished product will look like. We will have a lot of cultivating and planting to do. I'm going to have to remove a lot of the clay that is on each tier and fill it with top soil, but that can wait until the major portion of the project is finished...

My rototiller is in Texas right now, so when I bring that back here to Tennessee, I will use that to help loosen the dirt on each tier so that replacing some of that with top soil will be a bit easier.

The real fun part will be planting flowers. It is going to be beautiful when that is all done!