Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2

I returned to the scene Sunday afternoon to finish what I started. Namely, to remove a crap-ton of stone, mortar, and cinder blocks and to move around several wheelbarrow-fulls of soil. Step one was to remove all of the soil from the side planter and move it to the front planter; a task made much more annoying by the dead tree stumps and roots throughout.

Thankfully, removing the soil from within the planter actually made it a lot easier to tear down what was left of the wall. As I mentioned previously, they used a lot of cement though it was nothing judicious use of a sledge hammer and 4-foot long steel spike couldn't take care. Once the wall was down, I just had to pile up the stones I wanted to keep, haul out the broken up cement, and smooth out the soil with a rake.

Side planter, Day 2.

Front planter, day 2.

Stones to be saved.

Cement to be tossed.