Today we all worked like crazy on the outside of the house.
Our old patio was made of flagstone, so we kept those after pulling them up for the paver patio. When we came up with the idea, we thought, "we'll just throw down the stones to make a walkway around the house." Ha ha ha! It's a little more involved, including digging down before placing the stones, and working them like a puzzle to make a winding path. Greg did an awesome job! (And Trav helped with some of the bigger stones, as I couldn't even pick one up with him)
From the front:
I ended up re-setting almost all the rock wall, between needing to move it, and the old one being grown in/over by weeds.
Both of the girls planted flowers for me. Cara had helped pick some out on Saturday and Mira picked others on Sunday. We started mulching, but all our backs hurt too much. There'll be time this week to finish that.
I planted some hostas and some annuals on the north side of the house. Then we took some of the sod we'd ripped out to make the stone path, and laid it to make a mini garden. I'm hoping that between the sod, the grass seed the patio guys put down, and the grass left behind, that it'll look okay in a few weeks.
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