Saturday, August 6, 2022

Laying Stone

We've had an above ground pool for the past several summers but it's time has come to go away. The kids had lost interest in swimming in it last summer and maintenance is high on a 20 foot pool. So last spring we sold it and what remains is a large compacted twenty foot circle in the backyard. Sean spent hours and hours making it perfectly level and I didn't want to just throw some grass seed on it so we turned it into a fire pit. I was going to buy flagstone by the pallet and found someone online selling some large flagstones for $5 each. I bought them all and we transported them home on the trailer. That was no small task loading all of those rocks in the 100 degree weather. The kids were big helpers. 

We got home and I got to work setting them all in place. They were freakishly heavy. It was like a big heavy jigsaw puzzle. I still have to go get polymeric sand and seal all the gaps but that will be another day.