A New Building Project and Argh - Just Argh!

DH started working on a new garden feature for the upper back yard yesterday. First item on the agenda (after he had cleared the area last week) was to buy pavers. He went for the less expensive ones rather than the top quality he had used in the castle walls of our patio area, since this is just a semi-circle of only three high - just to contain plants, not a major planting. 

We have walls similar to this in our main garden area - our 
castle walls. We have them tiered more because we have 
plantings for our flowers and plants to make the patio much 
prettier. But the concept is the same, and the total height 
is probably pretty close too. What he's building now is much 
lower - only three tiers total. Just enough to make a nice 
area for sunnier plants and flowers. 

He loaded the truck to within a pound or two of load maximum - maybe even slightly over. Lots of paver stones and foundation stuff and soil - lots and lots of soil. The area, against our South fence, will get a bit more light than our main garden. It's closer to the southwestern corner of the house, and grading will be important because any major rains, with poor grading, might actually affect the house and the computer room, which is in that corner. 

I think our retaining wall that he's currently building will 
end up being closer to this - relatively short, and really 
just to hold plantings within a specific area. Of course it 
will go along with the larger castle walls. 

I'd love to show photos, but he covered everything up after almost getting the first tier laid. Apparently he stopped at that point to reconsider a couple of fine points. The area slopes from South to North, but also, apparently, from West to East, and he hadn't considered the secondary slope in his initial plans. So, since he was wiped out from hauling multiple pounds of stone here and there all day, he covered everything up and will contemplate things a bit today while he's at work. 

Ax-Man Surplus is one of those stores you love to wander 
through. There's always something that you'll find here, 
but you never know what or where. The founder of Ax-Man 
was an acquaintance of DH's Dad (like the rest of the world, 
it sometimes seems - LOL). The guy who runs the main store 
will be by this morning to take a look at what DH has to 
offer to him. 

He has a 10:30 am meeting with a guy from the local salvage shop. He's hoping to sell his shrink-wrap tubing and some other things to them. That would clear out A LOT in the basement, and bring in some needed funds - although I'm quite sure the amount of $ will be minimal. Still, if we could dump the stuff, it would be fabulous. I'm busy working on the website and trying to determine how to upload the website onto our domain. That's turning into the real hassle. 

I've actually liked developing the website, and 
I like the way it looks. It's really only a quick 
two-page splash page - we'll have hidden 
pages behind the splash that are customer 
specific. That's the next headache - getting 
those pages set up - but that'll go quickly, 
once I know how to upload everything onto 
our website address. 

I've developed the website on Network Solutions, but our website host is Google Workspace which is now hosted by SquareSpace, and I'm not getting any real answers on how to upload into our new space. I've spent hours on the two sites without success and I need to get this uploaded so that I can start the private pages for the customer we're hoping might be interested in the electronics. Any ideas from those of you more knowledgeable than  I would be very appreciated. ARGH! 

Yeah - that just about sums it up. 

So, I'm off to swim off my frustrations in the pool. I pick up my final set of eyeglasses this morning - new lenses in my very oldest and favorite pair. Then that particular project will be complete and my eyes will be finished for the year (except for a regular checkup later). It will have been quite the year for my eyes, but I've come a LONG way since scheduling my cataract surgery early in the year when we were still getting snow. I'm heading for the pool. Have an excellent day and I'll be back tomorrow. Slava Ukraini.