Wall and patio, part 1 and 2
It all started with our idea to construct a deck alongside of our much beloved sun room…. only when walking behind our house on the patio is stops and one has to continue to walk on the grass along the short end of the sun room extension and then around the corner to get to our so far just immaginative deck. The green is not particular beautiful and of course it is sloped. Bottomline: not a very nice entry point for our deck in spe. Together with the possible plan to put our over the ground kid pool their we decided together (Ana and I) that we would level the terrain and extend the patio with stones in preparation for our deck.
Shortly after the dig started we hit some rocks and it became clear that it would take longer. So, to have the pool reasonably quickly installed I started a second dig to extend our existing terrace so it would hold the 14 feet diameter pool. Soon the garden looked like a huge construction site ripped open on all ends. Even the front was affected as I was putting the dirt from the first dig there to extend our lawn right in front of the house. Retaining walls also there had to be constructed so that for at least two long weekends everything looked like a mess. By now the swimming pool dig is completed with a nice retaining wall and a very nice and inexpensive pool installed. The kids love it and use it every day at least once. The second construction site in front of the house with its retaining wall is also complete and today I cut the freshly planted grass for the first time.
The patio extension is also making good progress, the somewhat scary larger scale wall turned out to be my best wall as of yet though I have to start using some devices to make it more even. It has a very handmade look as it has some uneven parts that I could have easily avoided using a stick to maintain the same slope in the wall. Anyway it it very nice and at some point I will redo it and make it straight.
