Patio Progress - Part 4

I apologize for the minimal posting (as in 1 post) last week.  I went out of town for work on Wednesday and Thursday, had meetings and catch-up on Friday, and worked Saturday.  Needless to say that meant zero time for blogging.  What is sad about this fact is that we accomplished so much last weekend on the patio.  To the point of it being 98% complete!

Lets see ...
We came home from seeing Gram in PA on Saturday afternoon ready to work with a belly full of yummy pancakes and sausage from the Maple Festival.  We wasted no time and started prepping for a full day of working planned for Sunday.

Sunday kinda went like this -
1)  add sand base, level, add pavers, repeat

2)  hubs takes trips to Home Depot to re-stock supplies; I stay behind and work my butt off
3)  glue-on edging pavers at retaining wall and stairs

4)  install edge strips
5)  work on stairs and the 'mud pit' (aka the well at the bottom of the stairs that gets extremely muddy when it rains and causes a 'mud pet'

You can see in the 'mud pit' pic above where we needed to add retaining wall and edging paver caps.

6)  sand pavers, vibrate pavers, repeat.  And, ta da ...

We literally worked from 8 AM till 7 PM on Sunday.  But, it was so worth it!  We were left with correcting some 'mistakes' and finishing our edging pavers and strips.  Our mistake(s) included not correctly edging the pavers around the planting bed leaving ample opportunity for the sand based to wash out from under our pavers during rain.  We fixed that yesterday (pics to follow).

On Saturday though, we could finally enjoy a little patio sitting after work (yes, we both worked on Saturday).  We started a fire in the fire pit, ate cheeseburgers, had some cocktails, and made smores!

Grouper obsessed about his ball.