3 Days, 2 Humans, 1 Mini Excavator, 2 Dry Stone Walls, a Supervising Cat -- and from a sloping meadow the first signs of what will be our backyard terrace start to emerge.

The artistic mason in Lukas creates the stone wall from the stones that we find underneath the slope.

Nellie -- always happy to lend us her supervising eye and suggestions is around -- smelling here -- jumping over the twine there -- making sure that the ground is sloping in the right direction.

The curve of the stone steps leading upto the small terrace happens just like that -- we didn't really plan it, but it fits in beautifully - like it was always there! And it makes us Happy.

There's a long way to go, before we can sit down and really enjoy the terrace. Won't happen until spring next year -- But for now, we're happy -- I'll take a flat backyard instead of a slope any day!!

Time to put the feet up for now