A long awaited project

Wayne has been dreaming of putting a patio out back. Last fall we were able to get some paving stones free from Freecycle. They were piled up in front of his workshop over the winter and when Mom J and Dan were here they moved them over to the 'future patio location'. This is what the site looked like last week...He directed the kids on how to lay the stones and our friend delivered a trailer load of small gravel. This is what it looked like by the end of the week...
The little boys think it's great to have all those big stones to write on with sidewalk chalk. The rest of us enjoy sitting out back on the new patio. It'll be a BIG help in the spring to have less mud right outside the back door.

The weekend took a turn to the unexpected. Wayne ended up admitted to the hospital for 3 days recovering from a nasty urinary tract infection and intense back pain (no it was not from him lifting stones...the kids did the lifting). He did get some great news...the test results from the latest test showed no cancer!