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September, 2008
 
 
 

9:37 p.m. — Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Laying the Brick Patio, Part 2

Wow, this summer has really flown by! The patio has been completed for at least a month, but I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to write about it until now. Unfortunately, it's dark outside right now and I haven't taken pictures of it yet, so for now I'll just have to post pictures of what's happened since I last posted...

We ended up needing another pallette of brick delivered:

Brick Delivery

See how the little forklift fit onto the end of the truck, below? Pretty cool.

Delivery Truck

So here's where we left off:

The Can

After laying the brick next to the side steps for the garbage cans, Ryan laid the path between the shed and the garden beds. Somehow — despite all his careful leveling — the middle still sunk down a bit, so he took out a bunch of bricks and reset them:

Ryan Releveling

Voila:

Finished Path

It's so beautiful! And Lily loves running up and down the path, or riding her tricycle around (via foot power Flintstones-style...she's still too short to reach the pedals).

Here's the view from our upstairs window at the end of the Hallway to Nowhere:

Window View 1

Window View 2

Final photos to come. For now, you'll have to be satisfied with this picture I took with my phone yesterday of the "albino" deer that has roamed our yards (and eaten our plants!) for years:

Deer on Patio


 

11:31 a.m. — Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The Completed Brick Patio

View from the kitchen steps:

Patio Done 1

Patio Done 2

View from the upstairs window:

Window View 3

Window View 4

A third stepping stone path will go to the right of the current garden beds. A raised bed will go to the right of the shed (to match the left side), with another stepping stone path to the right of that. Then a fence will run the whole length of the end of the driveway, to the right of everything. An arbor with a double gate will go between the fence on the walk. We just can't seem to find what we want. ;)

Special thanks to my parents for providing us with the gray pavers that make up the interior of our patio. They were leftover from my parents' new driveway and conventiently found their way to our house.

Here's a close-up of the garden stepping stone paths:

Stepping Stones

They are made of slates on crushed gray rock on plastic weed barrier on QP stone on dirt. We've had the slates sitting around in stacks for years. It's nice to finally have something to do with them. I think we still have enough to run a double-wide path of them from the back of the patio, down the little slope, to the rear stairs in back of the house.

Whoops, Jacob is waking up already! Gotta go.

Jacob at 4 Months



abigail from virginia beach, va said the following on 09/24/2008 at 17:09:01:
your patio is absolutely beautiful. I love the different colors in the brick! so pretty.

Brent & Abigail from Virginia Beach said the following on 09/25/2008 at 12:34:12:
MAN the patio looks great. We went to home depot this past weekend and were looking at patio stones to see what we would want to use. The ones you chose are almost identical! Great choice! You guys are gonna be outside so much more now! And you'll be right next to your garden to watch it grow. :-)

 

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