Filling behind the walls

We also finally got the earth backfilled behind the concrete walls. Although a lot of hand shoveling and raking is still needed, you can see how the north side of the building now looks. It will be very easy to get onto the roof, eh?


Around the two windows in the concrete walls I hope to build some retaining walls from the rocks we uncovered during excavation. They should make nice little rock gardens just outside the windows. Here's my first try at it.


Above the wall on the west side I've scraped some small swales to encourage run-off away from the building. After a series of rainy days, it all seems to be working and the wall is holding up.