Checked off

The patio is now checked off our list.  Casey ended up adding one row instead of the 2-4 we were originally planning.  That last row took 15 bags of sand and had us worrying about the stability of it to last the winter.  Now we’re planning to get a load of dirt to hopefully even out the rest of the area and support the patio so there’s no shifting.  Tomorrow we’re planning on going to a landscaping place to get the dirt ordered and get a couple of tons of landscaping rock to finish up the backyard.  It’ll be such a relief to have that project done.  We still need to stain the back stairs since we didn’t get to that this past weekend but that shouldn’t take long at all.  Fortunately for us the weather is supposed to be warm for this time of year so we should hopefully be able to finish things up without freezing which should make this whole process less painful.