Mom and Matt moved many tractor loads of gravel to bring the back porch up to grade, leveled it, compacted it, decided they had too much gravel, scraped it off, leveled it and compacted it again.  Brutal.

Then they put the sand layer down between two 1" pipes and screeded.  Laying the pavers on level sand is the easy part!  Just lots of bending over.  The pavers stay cool in the shade so I've been happy with them.

Matt drew the curve of the patio on auto-cad, then we transferred it from the drawing to the pavers.  Matt cut them; some were tiny angle pieces.

We're in full use now!! Picnic table, lounge chairs, a couple hammocks from our Maui friends.  Life is good!











The Wheeling University buddies were here last week!  They decided to dismantle the greenhouse and move it to the fenced-in garden area!! 

Taking it down happened pretty darn fast!
They rolled the plastic up, unscrewed the top pieces to remove, pulled up the side pieces, created a new layout in the garden area, drilled new post holes, set the posts, leveled them, put the top pieces back on, and...

Another task done!!  Now we'll order new plastic and get it ready for the fall.