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May. 1st, 2014 02:51 pmIt has been 295 days since we first lifted up the paving stones that had made up the walkway to our house. That path had several issues which promoted us to want to change it--it was lower on one end than the grass surrounding it, so when it rained it was covered with a puddle, it ran along the edge of the house directly where snow from the roof landed when falling from the roof, meaning either extra work for shoveling, or shoveling a path that didn't have the paving stones there-under, the width of the path wasn't as wide as our nice push-along snow shovel, and it was a boring straight path.
So we took it out last June and started the process of setting a new walkway into the ground. We managed to get it about 1/3 of the way set in before winter arrived (in between all of the other outdoor projects we were also working on) and we had to take a 133 day break from the project. However, this spring has been unusually warm and early, so we were able to resume work on the project on April 9th, and today, at long last, the project is done! Granted, the big reason we were able to get it done so quickly this spring is that while it has been warm, it isn't yet consistently warm enough (i.e. above freezing at night, too) to risk playing with concrete to resume work on the earth cellar walls yet).
It was necessary to purchase some additional cobblestones--the ones his dad gave us (left over from their own landscaping projects) wasn't enough to finish the job, but we found a cheap source for them very near by. We will also be buying some large building stone that they have that will be nice for use in the earth cellar.
The rest of the afternoon we plan to spend making music with some friends from the choir, and then the mid-week holiday is over (yes, Swedes get 1 May off of work, and a half day on 30 April, too) and we go back to work.
So we took it out last June and started the process of setting a new walkway into the ground. We managed to get it about 1/3 of the way set in before winter arrived (in between all of the other outdoor projects we were also working on) and we had to take a 133 day break from the project. However, this spring has been unusually warm and early, so we were able to resume work on the project on April 9th, and today, at long last, the project is done! Granted, the big reason we were able to get it done so quickly this spring is that while it has been warm, it isn't yet consistently warm enough (i.e. above freezing at night, too) to risk playing with concrete to resume work on the earth cellar walls yet).
It was necessary to purchase some additional cobblestones--the ones his dad gave us (left over from their own landscaping projects) wasn't enough to finish the job, but we found a cheap source for them very near by. We will also be buying some large building stone that they have that will be nice for use in the earth cellar.
The rest of the afternoon we plan to spend making music with some friends from the choir, and then the mid-week holiday is over (yes, Swedes get 1 May off of work, and a half day on 30 April, too) and we go back to work.