New Walkways

I'm a little behind on my postings! As you will know, we were in WI again recently enjoying a visit from niece Kris and boyfriend Tom. Before leaving, Tom assisted me in setting two new stone walkways in place. You may know that we already have red flagstone walks to the front door and from the back deck to the lake steps. I wanted to add two more--one from our new hot tub deck to the stone steps at the rear of the home and another from the foot of those stone steps over to the rear deck. It took a half ton of stone to do the job, and several of the individual stones were very heavy. Without Tom's help and his experience in doing jobs like this, I would surely have struggled, simply to get it done but also to do it right. Many, many thanks Tom!!

I started by laying out a pattern with the stones I had previously selected. Then we marked the edges, laid the stones aside, skimmed out about 3" of soil, put each stone back (carefully leveling and supporting each one with sand fill), and then finished the job by packing the cracks and edges with soil/sand.







Here are the final results as seen from a spot near the hot tub and looking down toward the back yard and another from the back deck looking down. In time, with a little settling of the fill and some washing by the rain, everything will look even better. It has a very nice overall flow.