Excavation Begins on Pizza Oven Hardscape Landing - Priority 2 (Part One) - March 2025

The weather recently has been doing with late Winter/early Spring does around here: Move all over the place. Some 60's and some 30's. I've been trying to fit in some early garden work during the warmer moments - from clean-up to bed extensions to...now...kicking off the pizza oven project for 2025. I labeled this my #2 priority project earlier this month and talked about getting it 'operational' was my goal : that means getting it water-tight and getting the hard surface right in front of the oven mud-free - and...presentable. I am going to first address the hard surface. This whole project - in the most ideal state - requires A LOT of things - retaining walls, paver patio, covered roof, prep surface and (likely) a bar. But, for now, I'm looking at what I can get done NOW - this Spring. And something that is both cost-effective and (at least somewhat) attractive. There's a 26" drop between the grade of ...