After we got all the brick out we realized the footing was totally crumbled and needed to be redone. Dug a trench, put in forms, 19 bags of hand-mixed concrete later we had a footing...
Rubble removed by Malik who we met at home depot. Great guy.
Malik also delivered 20 80-lb. bags of mortar at the same time
Wayne on trowel! The first few courses were murder as they were actually below ground level. Now we are well on our way.