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When Don came to visit in September 2009, he was a huge help getting the retaining wall behind our house finished.
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Here Don checks to see if a brick is level.
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And Jason carries up another heavy brick from the trailer.
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Jason filling behind the wall with dirt.
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Don.
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And more dirt moving ensues.
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Here they are measuring the space where the drive-through gate in the fence will go.
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Genubi and Schamail "helped".
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They were tied to one of the bricks to keep them from roaming the neighborhood.
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The poodle helped too, from the shade.
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She usually stuck around voluntarily.
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To get the bricks as close to the wall as possible, Jason would drive the trailer full of brick up the back lot and over to the wall.
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Here's the now-empty trailer parked by the wall.
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The finished wall! Good job, guys.

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