New activities taken up during COVID-19

[Art Deco]

Speaking of a reminder that I don't want ... that patio project ... from 7 months ago is finally getting it's last delivery of pavers next week . It is not half done yet because of tedious leveling and tamping needed once paving is completed.

 

[Art Deco]

The first phase of that project came out nice enough. The white bush in the center in front of the van is a cutting off the clemitus vine in this photo. Should grow to same size in a few years.

 

[Latitude]

One other Covid project for me... chainsaw carving of a tall oak stump left after we had a tree taken down. It has been stained and the tree is attempting a comeback. Edit: Pub sign for the garden shed, finished carving today, ready for colour.

 

[Art Deco]

One other Covid project for me... chainsaw carving of a tall oak stump left after we had a tree taken down. It has been stained and the tree is attempting a comeback.

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Very nice. Your "Handiwork". A Sculpter as well as a painter?

 

[Latitude]

Very nice. Your "Handiwork". A Sculpter as well as a painter?

Only sculpture I have ever done. Thought I would wreck it and it would become firewood.

 

[Art Deco]

Well you didn't wreck it. One of the best pieces of that type I've seen. But mostly I see bears or comedy lumberjacks.

Anyway, nice. Does it have a title?

 

[Latitude]

Well you didn't wreck it. One of the best pieces of that type I've seen. But mostly I see bears or comedy lumberjacks.

Anyway, nice. Does it have a title?

“A Bird in the Hand”

 

[Art Deco]

“A Bird in the Hand”

That's what I thought of. We actually have a town named Bird in Hand in Pennsylvania.

 

[Buckdubay]

Finally getting around to my drainage project.

 

[Buckdubay]

Bulk of digging done

 

[Taylor57]

Who did all the digging and is he or she still alive?

 

[Saratoga Dave]

Buried out behind the barn there

 

[Art Deco]

Bulk of digging done

Used a ditch witch or such, not a shovel I hope.

 

[Buckdubay]

I am an old school shovel guy. Luckily I have fairly sandy soil. It should be wrapped up by the end of the weekend

 

[Buckdubay]

Drainage project is done. Back to the bike until it is to cold

 

[Art Deco]

About 200 sqft (a 10 x 12 plus walkway). I am hiring help to lay it ... much heavier than working with deck boards, but once does it. I am old enough to not want to do that deck again and again.

I'm going to revive this thread where a mentioned tearing out an old deck and starting a patio project. That was about a half a year ago. It grew at a N+1 rate, and is now about 80 percent complete and about 22 foot by 16, connects to a new driveway with a crushed stone ramp. The edge is planted with four trees so far, and it has electricity. It will probably always be 80 percent complete and still growing...

 

[john peck]

I'm going to revive this thread where a mentioned tearing out an old deck and starting a patio project. That was about a half a year ago. It grew at a N+1 rate, and is now about 80 percent complete and about 22 foot by 16, connects to a new driveway with a crushed stone ramp. The edge is planted with four trees so far, and it has electricity. It will probably always be 80 percent complete and still growing...View attachment 80585

Some fun, huh? Geez, I´ve dun enuff of that nonsense. I was the stone schlepper for Aspen¨s premiere
landscaper, Henry Petersen. He said he was Danish, but I suspected he was a war criminal. Probably
not the only one hiding out in Aspen either. If my work wasn´t up to his aesthetic, he´d make me tear it up.
& start over. Lucky you´re not working for Henry.

 

[Art Deco]

I thought someone else would be working for me. Nope. No one available due to Covid, backlogs, shortages, etc. Did it all myself so far....might even finish it myself ... eventually.

 

[john peck]

I thought someone else would be working for me. Nope. No one available due to Covid, backlogs, shortages, etc. Did it all myself so far....might even finish it myself ... eventually.

What´s the soil like under the crushed rock?

 

[Art Deco]

The area under the pavers was already packed pretty flat from the deck I removed. The ramp was all fresh dirt I had trucked in to make the driveway. About 20 tons of dirt, 4 tons of crushed stone, and 2 tons of pavers. So far.