I think it would look better over there.

After 3 days of road sales we were so happy to get back to yard work yesterday. With much anticipation we received a truckload of beautiful accent stone. But placing boulders is hard work, dangerous and very wearing on a relationship.

You never know just how they're going to look until you get them in place.

And then you realize it would have been so much better if you had turned it around first.

But they are incredibly heavy. And have a tendency to roll down a slope.

At some point you just have to embrace the rock, whatever side is exposed. And in the end, it all works out just fine. In fact, a bonus feature is that our lower rock makes a perfect place to take a load off and set for awhile.

Feeling so empowered by our first success, we tried placing more boulders under our newly finished circle drive. This didn't go so well. If there's one thing I've learned in work, marriage and creating masterpieces it is ... knowing when to quit for the day.

So this what we've got so far. To be continued .....