One of the troubles we had concerning the entry to the backyard from the driveway was that there was a considerable downhill slope from the driveway. The garden wall with its arched top door made for a nice entry point into our backyard but the slope made you feel uneasy particularly since it was mostly exposed dirt littered with gravel. It certainly wasn't worthy of what should have been a grand entrance.
I like doing concrete even though I have little experience with it. The most time I spent on any significant project was during my first trip overseas to Haiti. I traveled with Global Go Team to help pour piers and a concrete slab floor for the first building that was going in to the soon-to-be campus of Shepherds House Ministry. The experience was invaluable and life-changing for a ton of reasons too numerous to attempt to list. I even learned some practical tips on how to work with concrete.I'm not done just yet. I need one more 80 lb bag for a finish coat which I will pick up on the way home from work today. I plan on using it to smooth out the sides of the vertical walls and to create a slight slope towards the brick patio so that this area won't hold any water. It wouldn't be a very good entry if it just became a puddle every time it rained.
Jodi and I plan on writing all our names in the concrete along the back of the curb. We haven't really signed anything on this house, but thought that this masterpiece of ours deserved to have an artist's signature on it somewhere.
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