Rocky Road

For several months I've been hiring this family of mostly high-school workers to help out with Wimberley landscaping projects. "Help out" in this case basically means doing everything that I don't want to do. Which is just about everything not involving a chainsaw.

Hundreds of man-hours later, our acreage is actually starting to look like a civilized place rather than the lunar landscape it once resembled. This first photo shows the guys hauling about 400 pounds of rocks about 400 feet to create the circular wall shown in the second photo. Not quite 400 trips to do it, but I'm sure it felt like 400 to them. Oh, forgot to mention that they had to DIG UP many of those rocks from other parts of our property. Nasty.

They've built several such walls around the property with the good, flat stones. They haul the not-so-good ones (anything that can't be easily stacked) to our property border to create a sort of mounded fence line, shown in the last photo.

Not a fun job, but these rock-steady (ugh) guys are happy for the work. They can't imagine how happy I am to NOT be doing it by myself.