Hello friends!!  It's been a bit boring around here for me and Osker the last couple of months.  Mom and Matt have been building patios and Dad has been taking care of the mowing, weed whacking, and everything else!

 The gravel that was our patio was brought up to the correct height under the siding, and extended out 10 ft on the front side, and 12 ft on the creek side.  Matt runs the compactor.  Then they screed the area to level and get the correct slope (1/8"/ft).  That is the hardest job; adding gravel, leveling, taking it off, leveling, etc.

 This area off the mudroom is 20 x 20 ft.  The chickens are always checking things out.  They were very disappointed that the bucket-loads of gravel had no worms.

 We've had about 17 pallets of pavers delivered.  Of course I'm good at supervising!! 

After the gravel, an inch of sand is spread over the area and screeded to be level and sloped. Looks like I need a couple more process pictures to show this.

 The pavers are set down, compacted, polysand is spread, compacted, spread again, compacted, then watered to cement the pavers together and hopefully prevent weeds and bugs from getting between them.

The front and side are done!!

Now they're working on the back side!  This side has to be dug out first!