PATIO! ALL DONE!

Claire is so excited that she can put on these velcro dress shoes herself. If I let her, she would probably spend all day in the laundry room playing with her shoes. We also call this the pantry, but I don't actually keep any food in here...it's all in the cupboards in the kitchen!
Wrong foot! She doesn't seem to care about getting them on the right foot yet!

She loves to play with this squishy orange ball!

Dirty footprints! YIKES! Well we have a big mud ring around the edge now.

She loves the patio already!

Notice my tomato plants? I have 3 and 1 pepper plant!

Next Step!

So it's pretty much done by this step! The extra black powder stuff which was a finisher was washed off with the power washer. Then it dried again...from the washing.

Then it was time for sealant. It then had to dry again between coats. Then it was re-sealed with a second coat. Then that had to dry.

Then there were lines cut into it to prevent cracking. If you see cracks in sidewalks or driveways sometimes the sections were too big.

Step Six: LET IT DRY!

Step Five: Add black powder and STAMP IT!

Step Four: SMOOTH IT!

Step Three: Add Concrete!

Step Two: GRAVEL LAYER!

Step One: DEMOLITION TIME!

We recently got our patio done! I will be posting some more pictures in this process. But step one is here...Bobcat time! First the dirt had to be moved to make way for the concrete!
We have really hard, clay-like soil, as you can see, the Bobcat had to work to get the ground up.

This is one way to get rid of that dang mint that had taken over the back flower-bed. HEHE! :)