So I’m finally getting around to posting pics of the Stone Patio Project, which have been much demanded by family and friends. In case you don’t know, I sought to laydown some very nice limestone squares in my currently grassy backyard. I think it turned out “good enough” which was sort of the motto of the project. Keep in mind, I have NEVER done anything in regards to building EVER. Soooo yeah…

We start off with the yard as is with grass and all

And here’s the view of the patio

That’s Ross helping hammer in the lining stakes, alas he has since moved back to Minnesota

The outline is done

Now comes the digging. (That’s Mike!)

I get to handle the power trimmer. I had the shakes for a week after that

That there’s a nice lookin hole!

The piles are building

One of a few rained out days

Here comes all the gravel and sand from Home Depot

And here’s all the paver stones. Notice some come with a rustic flare of brokenness

Must go deeper!

Oh now that’s a hole

With some huge piles on all sides

Had to wheel each of the 311 bags of gravel and sand 6 at a time to the backyard

compacting the ground to be “level” -ish

Lookin good

Now, we’re laying down the organic weed guard which we’ll find out later actually goes over the next layer of gravel, not the ground

Laying out bags of gravel on top of that

Fully covered

And Presto, they’re all rocks! Yeah, cause it was just that easy

There’s Jake and his stache lending a hand too

Compacting the gravel

Now after going to the store countless times to get more weed lining to put a second layer over the gravel, we lay the sand bags

And here’s the trail the wheel barrel made to the backyard, killed all the grass

converting bags to sand

trying to smooth out the sand with the scree

Compacting the sand

Starting to lay the stone

So close!

My poor poor hands

had to fill in the corners with extra dirt when I realized I needed a wet saw to cut stone, so had to change the plan to circle off the end

almost done

Still have to compact the stone down by hand or rather by foot

It is at long last FINISHED!

A many thanks to those who helped out, especially Mike and Jake!