As you'll recall, we put together a nice shed from Home Depot to hold some of our lawn tools and the trash. We even boasted that this was a one-day job. To quote the sensei, that was true, from a certain point of view.
First, we realized that we needed a ramp in front of the doors because we plan to keep the mower in the shed. No problem. We improvised by turning over four of those concrete things that are at the base of many people's downspouts. (Like this, except made of actual stone.) Then we took some pieces of slate and a few outdoor tiles that we'd removed from somewhere else and filled in some of the area to make it more uniform. Finally we added a row of bricks to demarcate this quasi-patio.
But we needed something to fill in the gaps, both to make it look nicer and to keep the weeds from growing. So we bought a ton of sand. And when we say "a ton" we really mean it--2800 pounds of sand arrived in this neat little sack.
We needed to get this from the driveway to the shed and then spread it around, so we bought a wheelbarrow and added it to our stock of tools for this job.
Then we let the spreading commence!
And we're done, right? Right? Well, no. Seems we forgot to think about what it would be like to push the wheeled mower through the sandy area between the bricks and ramp. That wasn't so bright on our part. The easy part of the solution was to buy some cement paving stones from Home Depot to fill in that roughly 4x10 space. The harder part was that we had to clear away that sand, level the ground, and clear out a number of roots before we could lay down the pavers and refill around them with the sand. After some effort here's how it looks. We're very pleased with the final result.
Especially given what we had to start with all those years ago when we bought the house.
And here's what the open space looked like once that rusty old shed came down and all the firewood (about a third of it rotten to the core) was hauled away.
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