I say NEARLY complete, because all that remains to be done is back surgery, and that is scheduled for a week from tomorrow. Ha!Ha! Getting old is not for sissies!

Here's one picture, and a link to the rest.
Jim

Best of luck with the back surgery. FWIW, my wife has had three and is doing fine.

Thanks, Richard, and thanks for the encouraging words about your wife's back surgery.

Thank you Trsinc, and yes I am having back surgery. They would have done it today, but you have to be off of Plavix for a week before they will cut on you. I actually injured my back while cementing in the drain where it goes under the back gate. I overextended while lifting a bag of Sackrete into the wheel barrow. I had pain shoot down my left leg, and it's never gone away. Actually have two ruptured disks, but one of them isn't bad enough to operate on yet. Ha! Later, I guess.

It's really a load of my shoulders to have this finished, but not the feeling of accomplishment I would've had if I had done it all myself.
Jim

It has taken me a long time to realize that I need help with certain things now OR I don't get to enjoy what I have gotten/had done, lol

Y'all know about a few health things but not about the injuries/surgeries that I have had just to correct what I have done to myself by wanting to do all of the work myself, lol

Jim whether you did all of the work or not the concept and sounds like excellent supervision was all you. That is nothing to shrug off

It is beautiful and you will feel so much better after the surgery and let me know if you need a box of gardening mags for the recovering days, okay?

Oh, and be a good boy during the rehab, that is just as important as the corrective surgery, don't make me come down there, lol

Have your surgery and take better care of yourself.

Mel <--takes weeks to just re pot a plant.

Thanks Mel, I hope you're enjoying your new garden.
Jim.

Looking at your pictures is so inspiring!

~ freshair

Thanks, Carrie. I was really looking forward to doing some gardening when this project was complete, and now this will postpone it awhile longer. My wife has been taking an interest in the garden over the last few months, so if I can get her hands dirty, while I rehab, this could be a good thing. Just think what 2 gardeners could accomplice in this little garden.
Jim

It's amazing, what good friendships you can develop, through gardening, with folks you have never even met.

makes me whince over my decision to wait on the 16 sq ft on the other side of the sidewalk until october - aren't i a wooos

did i miss if you said what kind of surgery you're having?

~ freshair