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3. My father terraced his back yard at age 62.

Well, starting at age 62. I think he was 65 when he finished.

His yard sloped and was hard to mow, plus it didn't lend itself to flower beds. He started the project of terracing by building one flagstone retaining wall. He went to the quarry and hand loaded two tons into a trailer, then wheelbarrowed it from the front to the back. Hand dug for the wall, hand laid all of the stone wall, backfilled, and went back to the quarry for another two tons.

He wound up with three levels and some 200' of wall, most of it between 2' and 3' high. All of it with flower beds at the top and immaculate turf at the bottom. It was awesome, and doing it would have killed me. He thrived on it.

If I recall correctly, he hand loaded, wheelbarrowed and hand laid some 22 tons of flagstone in three years.