Today in yard work:

• Realized the way I was putting loose stones down to shape the hillock the compost pile is rotting into was wrong; changed it and it now looks much better.
• Realized that the reason the ramp in my backyard was so steep is leaves have been falling in it and rotting into dirt for decades and the “top” of it is really the top of the first of three courses of stone on the side walls. Got like two wheelbarrows of dirt out with like three or four left.
• Realized that the sandy ridge I exposed had been flowing downhill and if I dug it out I would notice I had actually built this retaining wall up like one now-buried flight higher so far this year.
• Realized if I made mud out of the dirt from the ramp then added in sand it would make a good solidifying paste to mortar the next flight on the wall in with.

Accomplishment!