I've gotten more things done in my house. I don't know that they will ever end really, I get too many ideas and some of the things I want to do will take time mostly because they also need money to accomplish them. learning to save for things you want is a good thing.
Well I wanted to make a place to sit outside that wasn't on a slope besides the upstairs stone patio where the fire pit sits (that I still have a hard time starting). So I hired a young man going off to college at the end of the summer to dig up some rocks I had tried to dig up to put down sand then pavers to make a small paver patio outside the dining room where my grill also sits. I have a small cafe table and 2 chairs that will fit there nicely. That was "Plan A". But as he tried to dig up the area he kept hitting rock after rock. I suspected there was a stone patio in place already that had been overgrown with grass and weeds and had sunk down where they couldn't be seen anymore. Well, apparently I was right. This young man had to return the next day to finish the job. I looked up a few ideas online, not sure how to still get a patio without digging up all these stones and came up with "Plan B", pea gravel. I picked up a few bags before the young man came to finish the job to see what it would look like. I completed the patio after he had taken off all the overgrowth. It took several trips to HD to collect the pea gravel in my little car and lots of dragging 40lb bags across the front lawn to the patio area, but I did it! I am pleased with the results and have sat out there a number of times to enjoy my yard. Here's some pics!
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| You can see the former stone patio in this picture and the beginning of the pea gravel |
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| Finished! (Except for the patch painting I did to the house) |
