Update on Stairs and levels work:

We're now building mini-retaining walls for each level, which in some cases will have walls on them, and some spots will be stairs (probably with wooden tops for the 'tread' of the stair.)

Here you can see how we used some rebar to tie the bond beam into the stairs (not that it needed it)






Here you can see how well Melissa works at stacking the urbanite and filling in the mortar lines as we're working along. You can see the 3 bags of mason's mortar in the back of this photo... we've probably already used 60 of those, mostly on the retaining wall.