keep up the good work!!

I am impressed by your restraint!
I would have been throwing the damn rocks into traffic!

When I first bought my house and it was falling apart around me I used to go on these really really long walks wishing that when i got back it had burned down.
ha! try to keep your spirits up – or you could just start drinking heavily that helps too! ( you do work at a liquor store don't you?)

ingredients:
1/2 ton of rocks in various sizes
9 80lbs. bags of concrete
3 60lbs. bags of type-n mortar cement
20 gallons of water

instructions:
Layout all your rocks. Combine concrete mix and water until consistency resembles yogurt. Make as much concrete you believe you can use in the next 60 minutes. Prepare the bed for the first course making sure its free of dirt and is moist to insure good bond with concrete. Lay 2 inches (more if necessary) in the center along the entire course. Fit your largest rocks on top of this while presenting a flat face for each side of the finished wall and the next course. If it becomes necessary to reshape a rock to fit, WEAR SAFETY GOGGLES!
If you are working below grade it may be beneficial to lay a small dry-stack on the outside face below grade and fill the gap between the dry-stack and the finished wall with more concrete.
Once you are above grade use a dryer mix. One resembling chocolate chip cookie dough will be easier to form above grade and won't run all over the place. Keep the rocks above grade very clean and soak them in a bucket of water before placing them in the wall. This helps get an immediate bond with the concrete.
Let this rest for 24 hours then finish up by mixing your mortar cement. You want to achieve a consistency of bread dough but it will be wet to the touch. Having the proper tools to fill the joints can make your job easier but they are not necessary. A large soup spoon and a small desert spoon and a garden shovel will be all you need. (note. the spoons will probably be ruined) As you fill the joints between the rocks its important to push the mortar into the joint with the spoon starting at the bottom of the joint and working your way up. Over fill it then go back over smoothing the joint with the backside of the spoon in a short scraping motion starting from the top. You want to achieve a perfectly smooth joint. This will be water tight. Having a small spray bottle of water can help if the mortar gets to dry while you are working it. Don't move on until you finish the joints you just filled.
Let this rest for a few hours and use a broom or scrub brush to clean up any ooze from the joints. Be careful to not brush to forcibly. If the rock faces are covered in mortar now is a good time to clean them with some water and a brush or sponge.