Out with the old!

The landscapers (Rock Solid) arrived early in the afternoon yesterday and had the old wooden retaining wall removed within a few hours. The beams were in pretty poor condition and a lot of them broke into pieces as they were taking them out. Many were hollow inside...one even contained a hornets nest. The hornets delayed the removal a bit. The owner of Rock Solid got stung about a half-dozen times before he realized they'd disturbed a hornets nest. It didn't seem to phase him too much though. He just went and got some spray and proceeded to spray the hornets and their nest until they were mostly killed...I guess it's a fairly common problem that they run into when working on the wooden retaining walls from what he was saying.

After they'd left, we also discovered a very unhappy mole that lost its home. Weezer wanted to catch and kill it, but it got away before he could. I didn't want him to catch it anyway because it might have made him sick.

I've been taking a few pictures of this project which I'll post over the weekend and as the work progresses.