So yesterday, our beloved 6 pound yorkie, Fenway, took an interest in our retaining wall and tried to jump down to get to another dog. Our 9 foot retaining wall.
Here’s what the wall looked like when we bought the place:
We’ve since sold the gates for scrap, so here’s what it looks like now:
Well, Fenny was in that corner, trying to figure out a way to jump down. A 9 foot drop!
Well, today, we will fill in the gaps with concrete block. It will eventually get stuccoed over so that it doesn’t look like poop.
We will take plenty of picks to show you! So happy to be doing something after such a long period of inactivity.
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Poor little dog. I’m glad he didn’t make the leap.
I’m hoping to build a fence next summer so I can get a dog. My co-worker recently had to find someone to adopt her yorkie and I thought long and hard about it, but knew now wasn’t the right time. Luckily she found a good home for it.
I thought of your blog this morning when I was reading Kitchen and Residential Design. Weren’t you thinking of doing a pixelated mosaic wall in one of your bathrooms? Anyway, here’s the post: http://www.kitchenandresidentialdesign.com/2010/08/custom-mosaic-of-my-very-own-courtesy.html
Good luck with the masonry project!
How’d it go? Hopefully the daredevil is safely contained now!
Amy – thank you so much! That rocks! We’d like to do a large scale (well, as large as one can get in that tiny room) pixelated version of a single Spanish tile.
Kit – Still working on it. As it goes with Armand and I, the first chunk of the day went to discussing the project at hand, and the second chunk of the day when to actual doing. We got only 2/3 of one course done. But I’ve just gotten home to find the fella working on the second course as we speak :)