This Spooky Old House

I spent last weekend and part of this week dismantling the forms, and clearing out dirt and rubble from the sidewalk area. I now have a semi-finished product to show. This is ready for the addition of some brick pavers, plants, and (eventually) a fence.

   

One of the reasons I wanted to post these pics is so that folks could get a good look at what someone had done years ago and what I did as a sort of comparison. Keep in mind that I'm planning on plastering the vertical surface with some cement, so all the mess is going to disappear beneath it. That's largely why I didn't worry about making the bricks nice and neat. I just needed something solid to make up a vertical surface with, I knew I had to plaster part of it over anyways, so I figured I'd just do the whole "wall" (such as it is) that way.

   

I'm also going to repair the old damaged planter border so that it matches the section we made with the sidewalk.