About a month ago I posted pictures of my little patio update here. Since then we've been hard at work making even more changes. Remember how I posted a picture of the red brick pavers we were thinking about?
Well, we jumped in with both feet. We were able to strike up a deal with the owner of these bricks. A really, really good deal. Maybe it had something to do with this...
Yup, that's the pile of bricks being taken over by the land. We are unsure of the details of the history of these bricks, but judging from the wear (and concrete stuck to some) we know they've been used before. Even better. :) So we dug, dug, dug and loaded up the truck about 5 times over the course of a couple weeks.
One truck load...
Three truck loads...
We layered fine gravel on the concrete slab patio for the first phase of bricks. In order to expand the patio out into the yard (and to meet up with the sidewalk that stops suddenly in the back of the house) we dug out a large area of grass. Luckily we have had so much rain recently that the ground has been softer than usual. Regardless, digging grass makes for sore feet....
Luckily we had a very enthusiastic helper.
The digging is finally done. Hopefully we'll make more progress leveling and laying bricks tomorrow!
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