Back-fill side of the house

From this picture you can see the slope of the land from the front to the back of the house. Most of this slope is natural but some of it has been sculpted with the help of a digger, a bull-dozer and a few extra tons of dirt and stone. I had to cut down the tree at the front of the picture as it was rotten almost all of the way through and might have fallen on the house in a strong wind.