OMG-The Patio is Done!

Yesterday was a very long and tiring day. We started about 9:30am and finished about 4:30pm. But we finished and now there is an awesome patio in the backyard!

First, we dumped gravel into the patio hole and spread it out and rolled it flat.

Then we started laying bricks and pounding them in.

As we went we added sand and packed it in with the big water rolly thing.

Then we were done and took a shower and drank beer on the patio with the dog.

The cats really loved the giant pile of bricks we had in the yard the last month. It stayed warm long after the sun went down and they would lounge on it about dusk. Tim is sad the pile is gone. There are just a handful of bricks left, but he's still sitting on them.

Late summer harvest continues; harvested today:

• 2 big tomatoes
• 6 yellow pear tomatoes
• a handful beans
• 5 pickling cucumbers (this is the last of them, the rest of the small cucumbers are rotted on the vine)
• a few pounds more onions
• 1 bell pepper (first of the year! We'll be lucky to get three total)
• 2 zucchini

As a side note, I am officially gainfully employed again as of tomorrow. Time management is going to be rough. I'm already trying to figure out my canning schedule for next weekend. Let's see how I fare keeping up on all this while working full time!