August 4th, 2008
This is one of the many reasons why I love my husband:
Many times, all it takes is for me to say, “What if we…[insert idea that usually involves manual labor for him here]?”, and he usually goes with it.
This time it was creating a space for the bird feeder. We haven’t had our bird feeder [...]
July 21st, 2008
As part of the Houseblogs.net “Look What I Did” Sweepstakes, it’s a perfect time to show the Before-and-After of our flagstone patio and the progress we’ve made on our yard to date. (I’m also happy for the chance to win some cold hard cash/plastic from our sponsor, True Value!)
When we moved into our bungalow, our [...]
May 27th, 2008
While we still spent a good portion of the weekend working in the yard, we also spent a lot of time relaxing on our patio. The finishing touches are complete — check it out!
Here’s the view walking from the front of the house along the sidewalk to our side yard (the house is directly on [...]
May 20th, 2008
I can hardly believe it, but for all intents and purposes, we are finished with our patio with plenty of time to spare before our Memorial Day deadline!
Over the weekend we still had plenty left to do. The first day was spent leveling every single stone. First we tried to mark the pitch with string [...]
May 16th, 2008
We have all of the major pieces of flagstone in place, and we just barely had enough stone.
We still have a number of smaller pieces (shown strewn about on top of the big pieces) which we’ll have to chisel down to fit into the smaller holes, but for the most part I think we did [...]
May 14th, 2008
As our patio project progresses, we’ve reached the part where we’re exercising both our bodies and our minds. Not only are these flagstones heavy as sin, we also have to spend considerable time figuring out how they will best fit together. Sometimes that means moving a piece in to find that it just won’t work, [...]
April 25th, 2008
Yesterday we ordered 5 cubic yards of Grade 8 Limestone for the paths and patio foundation. According to calculations it will fill the patio and about half of the paths. The delivery truck can only handle 5 yards at a time because of the weight of the stone, but we planned to order a portion [...]
April 23rd, 2008
We spent the day Monday preparing the yard for our future patio and garden. We’re beat.
We rented a sod cutter from Home Depot, which was invaluable for this project. We also enlisted help from my stepbrother, who had used one of these before. It was easy to figure out and use anyway, but the manpower [...]