It has taken two extra weeks but the fence is now in.  It looks amazing and we are already planting in front of it.  Now maybe the liner and equipment can get installed.

I was not sure we would get this far since the guys only showed up yesterday and one of them left at lunchtime .  Leaving us with one guy trying to put the panels in.  He did okay since he had a lot of small ones to work on.

Last week we had Drew come in and put new screenings on the back patio and that made a huge difference in how nice it looks.

We have been planting the trees outside the fence as well and hope they all survive the winter.

This is so pretty.

The shrubs we plant around will soften this.

All the topsoil was packed down and now we have to rake before we plant grass seed.

I think they were given a deadline for finishing since they really moved today.

Ahhh!

E/B

How annoying.  Just when we thought we were making good progress with the pool our crews disappear.

We went with one day of work all of last week and when I called to ask why that was I was told that they were waiting for the fence.  What?  Why are we waiting for a fence when we bought the fence we did because we were told it was the one they always had in stock.  Turns out someone was not correct in that area as they only keep chain link fencing in stock and anything else is ordered and takes four to six weeks to arrive.  ARGH!!!!

There in lies our dilemma, so we decided to just proceed with the landscaping and they will have to work around us.  So Drew is here and if the weather holds we should get a fair bit of the yard leveled and topsoil applied..

The I can plant some more.

When my brother was here he and Brian got conduit in before the backfill was put behind the wall.  This means we can have outlets on the other side of the pool and not always run extension cords from the house.

Lets see where we get this week.

E/B

We had to dig a trench for the coduit.

We left these exposed so they would know where they were when they put the fence posts in.

Always put a barrier on the conduit.

If only they could just finish it.

Plants on the deck still waiting to be planted.

Well most of the wall is up but we have had rain delays and shortages of block delays.

What can you say we have never been short of anything before and always have many pieces left over that we are storing.  But when it came to this we were short of the wall blocks but had lots of capstone that will be returned.  I am glad as I don't need extra stone around and getting i the way of landscaping.

There was of course a different crew who did the wall although one day there were six guys here to help out.  It turns out the blocks I was going to haul to the backyard were heavy and giving the young guy moving them some trouble.  I'm so glad Brian decided to hire them to do that, I don't think I'd be moving much if that hauling had been left to just me.

We had company for a while so that slows us down as well.  We should be just about done most visiting by November so if it doesn't snow we could still get work done outside.

Love the pebble deck.

Waiting for stone.

Marking where we want the stairs.

These guys were beat at the end of the day.

The older guy did all the placing of stone the younger guy was the muscle.

Starting to look like a wall.

One stair down.  the side walls joining the stairs took a long time to chisel and fit.

This has to go up four more levels. 

Marking where the fence might go.

I love this wall.

First two levels are glued to keep them steady on the concrete base.

E/B