Progress!

Made a little bit of progress on my backyard project this week. Digging is exactly as much fun as I thought it would be. I find myself racing home in hopes of squeezing a few minutes in here and there. The area is mostly leveled off and all the big rocks that used to live there were evicted.

I have the front row basically done.. I need to fill in the extra space in the trench and a few of the border pieces need to be leveled out. Tho I don't have it pictured, I have one of the sides just about finished too.
My husband busted his ass and really helped me dig. It would have taken me forever to get as far as I have without him. If I could just convince my paycheck providers that this is character building and it somehow benefits them, I'd take off a whole day and finish up. The pictures don't truly do this "seating area" justice. It's much larger IRL than it looks.

We had some river rocks we got from my dad's farm in Tennessee laying around. So. we decided to throw them in a semi-circle to prettify a neglected corner. I'm going to fill it in with mulch and a bird bath this weekend.