Slide restrain

Last December 24th, our first holiday in the house, an abundance of rain caused a chunk of our backyard to slide into the road below.

So we are attempting to re-engineer the area before the rains begin again.

Several trees were removed to reduce the weight on the landslide soil, and then used them to create a huge turnout on the creek-side of the road.

This is the first in a series of retaining walls that are being installed to keep our "backyard" in place.

Bacahus performs a final inspection of the wall.

Also part of the work, we are adding a backup power generator.

I resisted having a propane tank installed initially, but it will be necessary to fuel the generator.

Because we'll have liquid propane, and blackouts are infrequent, we're ditching our old electric water heater for a tankless.

The propane tank cove is ready!

Complete with Loki's seal of approval.